Tkinter support in sugar builds

[Chris Ball]

Hi Shawn,

   > Is there any plan for it?  A friend of mine is interested in
   > porting some math ed apps to the OLPC, but they're written with
   > pytkinter.  He's trying to decide if he needs to port to pygtk.
   > 
   > Assuming it's reasonable to install tkinter on the XO in order to
   > support his apps, any idea how difficult it would be to
   > "sugarize" a tkinter app, so that it can run as an activity?  I
   > have basically zero knowledge of what's involved in sugarization,
   > so please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

It's a fine question.  I don't think it's possible/realistic to
sugarize a tkinter app (and there's no plan for supporting tkinter),
so I think moving to pygtk is justified.

Thanks,

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>