I would never say this in polite company, because Python is just crushingly hip, but it *****. But I have no intention of bothering with a bleeding-edge Python3 or reliving the '80s with Tcl/Tk. I can help if it is something I've built lately. You will have to research each project and how to control where it builds from. It broke one of my apps.īut there is no easy solution. I know this because I've seen them do it. Apple will pluck code from an untested, development branch of any open source package and release it to 800 million customers in less than 3 weeks. Apple has crowd sourced all testing and considers it to be your job, not theirs. Never use Apple's system provided software for anything unless you have no option. Ideally, you should do this for any open source software you build on the Mac. It has taken me about two weeks to get the entire GDAL system built, with postreSQL, a custom Python, etc. Ultimately it is not so much building software as creatively hacking it. Each one is designed for Linux, with Mac users being an afterthought at best, but usually a nonthought. Each project has a different build system. But you can still install from source and select exactly what versions of software you want to build with. That's fine though because that would surely break stuff. OS X won't let you replace system versions, so that option is off the table. You could go the package manager route with MacPorts, Fink, or now Homebrew and just type "brew. Few people even know how to build anymore.īut if you are going to use this software on a Mac, you have to adopt one of these strategies. In a really old-school way, people used to actually install test builds of newer versions, but in custom locations, just to test. There is a more "old school" way - you can install the software from source. Sometimes it works, and sometimes the user has to go back and install a newer, or older, version of Ubuntu/Centos etc. something else." to install software or update a system-provided version. □Īll of these software packages are designed for a Linux world. It seems that with every post, you open a bigger and bigger can-o-worms. So how do I get the IDLE application to shift over to Tk 8.6? I finally looked at the About IDLE dropdown and the little graphics window, to me, to show that IDLE is still using Tk 8.5 rather than 8.6. I puzzled over this for a bit, googled around only to find that others had experienced the same concern, however, no answers had been provided. > WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.9) in use may be unstable. I saw various warnings regarding issues with the default, already installed Tk 8.5, and followed the link to download and install Tk 8.6.īoth before and after I installed Tk 8.6, I get this warning when I open IDLE: I have been using BBEdit and terminal to learn python, but I want to use IDLE, mostly to the small window size, when working through the python tutorial online. However, the install created a folder in Applications folder, and it contains among other things: So far I have experienced any issues using it from terminal. I just downloaded and installed Python 3.5.
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