Quartz variant missing for tk?

Christian Calderon calderonchristian73 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 20:32:23 UTC 2023


Thanks for the info Christopher. I guess if I want Tkinter with quartz I will have to compile an older version of Tk myself.

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> On Nov 6, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Christopher A. Chavez via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
>  On 11/6/23 at 1:25 PM, Christian Calderon wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>   I recently pulled my old G5 out again with a fresh install of Leopard. I remember being able to install the tk port with the +quartz variant. This made using Tkinter in Python a lot nicer. I see on the website that quartz is listed as a variant, but when I run "port info tk" on my machine it is not listed. Did ppc support get dropped?
> 
> 
> PowerPC support was dropped a long time ago. tk +quartz (“Tk Aqua”) has required macOS 10.6 or later since version 8.5.13, released November 2012.


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