Tcl - ANNOUNCE: ActiveState releases ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0

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ANNOUNCE: ActiveState releases ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0

Jeff Hobbs

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0,
the quality-assured distribution of Tcl, available for AIX, HP-UX,
Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.

New in ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0:

* Tcl/Tk core updated to 8.4.11
* Bugfixes in several packages
* All packages, where possible, have been compiled to be Tcl
thread aware (--enable-threads). Note however, that the
Tcl/Tk core itself is not built with threads enabled, except
on OS X.
* Tcllib's critcl based accelerator packages have been added,
except for AIX, OS X and Solaris-x86.
* The following packages have been added to the Mac OS X
distribution:
Thread 2.6.1
MacCarbonPrint 0.2
MacSpeech 2.0
QuickTimeTcl 3.1b5
TclAE 2.0
TclAddressbook 1.1.4
TclApplescript 1.0
TclResource 1.1.1
carboncritlib

To download ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0, click here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl/download

For more information, click here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl

Enjoy!

The Tcl Team, ActiveState
http://www.ActiveState.com

sigzero@gmail.com

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0,
> the quality-assured distribution of Tcl, available for AIX, HP-UX,
> Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.
>
> New in ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0:
>
> * Tcl/Tk core updated to 8.4.11
> * Bugfixes in several packages
> * All packages, where possible, have been compiled to be Tcl
> thread aware (--enable-threads). Note however, that the
> Tcl/Tk core itself is not built with threads enabled, except
> on OS X.
> * Tcllib's critcl based accelerator packages have been added,
> except for AIX, OS X and Solaris-x86.
> * The following packages have been added to the Mac OS X
> distribution:
> Thread 2.6.1
> MacCarbonPrint 0.2
> MacSpeech 2.0
> QuickTimeTcl 3.1b5
> TclAE 2.0
> TclAddressbook 1.1.4
> TclApplescript 1.0
> TclResource 1.1.1
> carboncritlib
>
> To download ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0, click here:
> http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl/download
>
> For more information, click here:
> http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl
>
> Enjoy!
>
> The Tcl Team, ActiveState
> http://www.ActiveState.com

I am enjoying it at this moment. : )

Thanks!

Robert

sigzero@gmail.com

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

Why no "critcl" on OSX? Just curious.

Robert

Jeff Hobbs

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

sigzero@gmail.com wrote:
> Why no "critcl" on OSX? Just curious.

On the platforms it wasn't provided, it was due to build issues.

--
Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos

sigzero@gmail.com

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> sigzero@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On the platforms it wasn't provided, it was due to build issues.
>
> --
> Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
> http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos

That is what I figured. I wonder if it was a GCC4 problem.

Robert

robert.lipman@gmail.com

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm

Hi,

My Tcl/Tk application uses the uuid package to generate a GUID. uuid
can use critcl if it is available. I build my application with
TclDevKit. Now that 8.4.11 I'd like to use critcl to hopefully speed
up the execution of uuid.

In the TclDevKit user interface, I can select which packages I need
with the little package icon. However, in the list of available
packages there is nothing that refers to critcl. With TclDevKit, how
can I use critcl?

I'm assuming in my actual Tcl code I have to add 'package require
critcl' once I get the TclDevKit issue solved.

Thanks,

Bob Lipman
http://cic.nist.gov/lipman/

Pat Thoyts

2005-07-24, 10:09 pm

robert.lipman@gmail.com writes:

>Hi,
>
>My Tcl/Tk application uses the uuid package to generate a GUID. uuid
>can use critcl if it is available. I build my application with
>TclDevKit. Now that 8.4.11 I'd like to use critcl to hopefully speed
>up the execution of uuid.
>
>In the TclDevKit user interface, I can select which packages I need
>with the little package icon. However, in the list of available
>packages there is nothing that refers to critcl. With TclDevKit, how
>can I use critcl?
>
>I'm assuming in my actual Tcl code I have to add 'package require
>critcl' once I get the TclDevKit issue solved.
>
No, this is not how it's set up. The critcl stuff in tcllib is used to
build a tcllibc package. The packages that can use this try and load
tcllibc and if that succeeds they go ahead and use the compiled
version. What you want is to include the tcllibc subdirectory in your
shipping version. The critcl side of this should assist with dealing
with multiple platforms. I have yet to see about setting this up to
support critcl compilation on the end-users machine.

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