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Two years ago I decided to make the tktable's wrapper library for Python available on Github with the intent of increase its visibility, but now, since you have uploaded the original Tcl/Tk extension, I'm not sure anymore that was a good idea.

Over the years Python users have had many problems with the wrapper library, because many times the original Tcl/Tk extension is not installed on their system yet. There's no automatic and standardized way of installing this extension in the 3 major OS platforms, for all distributions. See for example this issue: nbro/tktable#1.

For some Ubuntu distributions, you can simply do sudo apt-get install tk-table, but it may not work for all Ubuntu distributions. On Mac, you may be able to install it through MacPorts, but I'm not sure how reliable it is. On Windows probably the only way to install tktable is to use the package manager of ActiveState's ActiveTcl, which means you need also to install this latter.

I would like to note that the wrapper library I'm "maintaining" has already a few little modifications with respect to the Python wrapper you have in this repository under library/.

That's why I also wanted to create an automatic way for Python users to install the wrapper library by simply using Python's package manager pip, but to do that I needed first a way to install this original library, but I'm not qualified enough for now to do it.

So the reason I opened this issue is to understand which plans do you have for the future regarding this library.

When I try to compile tktable under arm64, I get the following error:

./generic/tkTableTag.c: In function ‘TableResetTag’:
./generic/tkTableTag.c:215:47: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of ‘tclStubsPtr->tcl_PanicVA’
  215 |       Tcl_PanicVA("bad mojo in TableResetTag",NULL);
      |                                               ^~~~
      |                                               |
      |                                               void *
./generic/tkTableTag.c:215:47: note: expected ‘va_list’ but argument is of type ‘void *’

This error is repeated seven times; full build log is here. The same happens on some other platforms: arm 32 bit soft float, alpha, sh4. General build logs for this version here.
Tcl version is 8.6.10.