Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: saito <saitology9@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: Tcl / Tk on Windows
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:26:03 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <vjf9rt$2sdvv$1@dont-email.me>
References: <3c22e484-dd7d-8462-2a10-4d0529e6c8ec@gmail.com>
 <acc4009e-c92d-4cb9-83f3-6bfccfa2fde7@example.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:26:05 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3af846e75bbd24d9c0bba528f8b62fc0";
	logging-data="3028991"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lCwYf6pUyyeSyWrF3IvlO"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:8v25uw1vFBOvZxK6SiXU0n83SWs=
In-Reply-To: <acc4009e-c92d-4cb9-83f3-6bfccfa2fde7@example.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Bytes: 2253

On 12/12/2024 12:24 PM, Torsten wrote:

> The problem is getting 
> working binaries for the latest Tcl versions 8.6.16 and 9.0.
> 
> Magicsplat only supports Windows, Freewrap only Windows and Linux.


I think Bawt by Paul Obermeier hits the nail here, with support for 
Windows, Linux and Mac OS.


> The problem with tclkits and sdx is that it is old, very old, and no 
> longer maintained.

Is this true? Is the source code for tclkits and sdx not available? That 
is a real problem if so.


> I appreciate that Tcl/Tk is still being maintained, but I do not want to 
> port (configure/make/install) the language, I want to develop 
> applications using the language.
> 
> How can I use new versions without an out-of-the-box runtime 
> environment? In my opinion, this is the biggest threat to Tcl at the 
> moment.
> 

I can empathize.  Perhaps the wiki could have a page where people can 
download it, and the new version binaries are uploaded by the 
maintainers.  It used to be you got it all from Activestate (and its 
predecessors before them).  I am not sure what they are doing now but 
they changed their licensing a few years ago and, frankly, ruined it.