teacup install tcom 3.10

[Robert Lipman]

Hi,

I have been using tcom 3.9 that comes with ActiveTcl 8.5 on Windows. Now I want to try tcom 3.10 from http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/

How do I installed tcom 3.10? I have tried unsuccessfully

teacup install --at pathname-to-tcom-3.10

What's the right form for the command or is there some other way to install it?

Thanks,

Bob

[Harald Oehlmann]

I suppose, you should grab the zip:
http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/tcom-3.10b10.zip
and expand it in your source folder, e.g. in a folder which is in the
tcl auto_path list.

-Harald


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[Andreas Kupries]

Robert Lipman <robert...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using tcom 3.9 that comes with ActiveTcl 8.5 on Windows. Now I want to try tcom 3.10 from http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/
>
> How do I installed tcom 3.10? I have tried unsuccessfully
>
> teacup install --at pathname-to-tcom-3.10

The --at option points to the repository you wish to install into. Not
to the zip file to install. That is a regular argument.

(See ```teacup help options```)

So, ```teacup install pathname-to-tcom-3.10```
could work. Except:

The zip file found at vex.net very likely does not have the
TEApot metadata teacup will need.

I would recommend to

1. ping ActveState about the new version of tcom, so that they can
update their build and put it into their TEApot.

2. While that is going on you can workaround this as Harald said in
the other post of this thread, i.e. create a subdirectory under
[info library] and unpack the zip into it. Or, if the zip creates
its own directory, unpackl it directly in [info library].

--
So long,
Andreas Kupries <akup...@shaw.ca>
<http://core.tcl.tk/akupries/>
Developer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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