Tkinter support in sugar builds

[Shawn Willden]

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.

All comments/suggestions/flames appreciated,

Shawn.

[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.