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Prepare tkinter for tcl 8.7/9.0 and tk 8.7 #104568
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@chrstphrchvz Did you get the email from Zach Ware about triaging?
See also gh-112672
All the tracked PRs are merged (the checklist above is complete). Tcl/Tk never released 8.7 — it went straight to 9.0, and now 9.1, both supported — so there's nothing left to track here.
The 8.7/9.0 test adaptations were even backported to 3.13 (gh-128846, GH-153484), and support for Tk 9.1 continued under gh-145736.
Closing as completed.
Reacted by ThingamabobsCodingFor the record, Tcl/Tk 9.1 is currently in beta and so has not yet officially released and might change. So we should be a bit cautious about saying that we support 9.1 already.
@chrstphrchvz Chrisotpher Chavev, who did similar work preparing Perl for these anticipated releases, has opened several issues and PRs to do the the same for tkinter. Likely more will follow until 8.7.0 is released.
This issue is only for tracking these. All PRs should be attached to other issues.
Most of the changes are to tests. We can backport these to 3.11. Even if it is not completely ready for 8.7 when our bug-fixing ends, it will give Linux distributors a head start should they end up distributing both 3.11 and tcl/tk 8.7 simultaneously. We can deal with non-test code changes as they are needed. Anything not backported should be noted below.
Includes some general comments about the situation and _tkinter.FromObj PR.
gh-103839: Allow building Tkinter against Tcl 8.7 without external libtommath #103842 not backported to 3.11.
Tcl_AppInit()undeclared #104363mp_to_unsigned_bin_n()andmp_unsigned_bin_size()#104399