[ANN] TclTkAqua 8.4.2 Mac OS X binary distributions available

[Daniel A. Steffen]

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Mac OS X Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.2 Binary Release Announcement
March 14, 2003

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Mac OS X binary
distributions for Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.2, the Mac OS X native port of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit.

The distributions are dowloadable as compressed disk images from the Tcl
file release page on Sourceforge:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894&release_id=144142

Three variants are available:

* TclTkAquaBI: Batteries-Included distribution, includes many popular
extensions (c.f. list of packages below). This is a superset of
ActiveState's ActiveTcl distribution on other platforms.
Installs in systemwide locations, administrator password required.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcl/TclTkAquaBI-8.4.2.0.dmg (12.9M)

* TclTkAqua: smaller distribution of just the TclTk frameworks, Wish,
tclsh and html docs (including debug versions of the frameworks).
Installs in systemwide locations, administrator password required.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcl/TclTkAqua-8.4.2.dmg (4.9M)

* TclTkAquaStandalone: drag & drop install capable, self-contained
version of Wish with embedded TclTk frameworks (no debug frameworks
or documentation included). Can be used off read-only media and
installed by unprivileged users.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcl/TclTkAquaStandalone-8.4.2.dmg (1.7M)

Note that these distributions require at least Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar);
Mac OS X 10.1 is no longer supported.

Visit the TclTkAqua binary distributions homepage for more details:
http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/TclTkAqua/

Please direct questions and comments specific to the TclTkAqua
distributions to:
"MacTcl List" <tcl...@lists.sourceforge.net> (preferred)
or to the Mac OS X distribution maintainer:
"Daniel A. Steffen" <d...@users.sourceforge.net>

The Tcl/Tk Aqua Batteries-Included distribution contains the following
projects:

Tcl 8.4.2
Tk 8.4.2
IncrTcl 3.3.0
IWidgets 4.0.2
Tcllib 1.3
Tklib 0.1
BWidget 1.6
Mclistbox 1.02
TclX 8.4
Thread 2.5
TclVfs 1.2
Expect 5.38
TkTable 2.8
Vu 2.1.0
TkImg 1.3
+ TkHtml 2.0
+ Treectrl 1.0
TclXML 2.6
TclDOM 2.6
TclXSLT 2.6
TclSOAP 1.6.6
+ tDOM 0.7.5
Memchan 2.2
Trf 2.1
TrfCrypt 2.0
+ TLS 1.50
TclHttpd 3.4.3
+ Tbcload 1.4
+ Compiler 1.5
+ Parser 1.4
Mk4Tcl 2.4.8
TcLex 1.2
+ Snack 2.2
+ Tix 8.2
Tkcon 2.4
TclAE 2.0b13
+ TclSpeech 2.0
CritLib 2003/02/26
+ Launcher 1.0b1

Packages with a '+' have been added, and many others have been updated
since the release of the 8.4.1.0 Batteries-Included distribution.

Note the last package above, Launcher; a small utility (written by me)
intended to solve the "double-clicking .tcl files in Finder" problem.
It is installed into /Applications/Utilities, double-clicking it will
bring up its Readme. Comments & feedback about it most welcome...

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Daniel

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** Daniel A. Steffen **
** <mailto:d...@users.sourceforge.net> **