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Author benjamin.peterson
Recipients benjamin.peterson, gpolo, mboldisc, serhiy.storchaka, zach.ware
Date 2014-04-21.15:57:58
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014, at 8:54, Zachary Ware wrote:
> 
> Zachary Ware added the comment:
> 
> >From some testing, this looks like a Tcl/Tk bug, fixed somewhere between 8.5.9 and 8.5.11: Python 3.2.5 which shipped with Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 shows this bug; Python 3.3.5 which shipped with Tcl/Tk 8.5.11 does not, and Python 2.7 built with Tcl/Tk 8.5.11 doesn't show it.  Tcl/Tk 8.6.1 is also free of the bug.
> 
> Benjamin, what's your take on updating the version of Tcl/Tk shipped with
> the next Python 2.7 Windows installer?  Updating to a newer 8.5 is just a
> matter of changing paths in the buildbot scripts (and making sure whoever
> does the installer since Martin has retired knows about it); updating to
> 8.6 also requires some minor updates to PCbuild/pyproject.vsprops, but
> seems to work fine.

Sounds fine to me.
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