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Python support for Tcl 8.0
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:15:31 -0400
- Subject: Python support for Tcl 8.0
The following post from the Python-Dev mailing list seems to have
ramifications for Cygwin Python.
Comments, anyone?
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From: guido@python.org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:38:47 -0400
Subject: [Python-Dev] Dropping support for Tcl 8.0 and 8.1
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:07:22 +0200."
<200210010607.g9167Mns001471@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <200210010607.g9167Mns001471@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <200210011338.g91Dclo08817@odiug.zope.com>
> In _tkinter.c, there is currently special code for Tcl 8.0 (no Tcl
> objects) and Tcl 8.1 (no Unicode type). Tcl 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 are
> supported uniformly.
>
> Can we drop support for those two releases, in Python 2.3?
If it's more work to keep support around than to drop it, sure. I
agree there's probably nobody who's still using any Tcl version before
8.3 anyway; that's been out several years now.
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