ActiveState releases ActiveTcl 8.4.16 and ActiveTcl8.5.0 Beta 9
Andreas Kupries (AS Dev)
ActiveState is pleased to announce ActiveTcl 8.4.16, a core patchlevel
release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl distribution for Windows,
Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX; and ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9,
based on the upcoming Tcl/Tk 8.5 release.
For detailed information or to download these releases, see:
http://www.activestate.com/products/activetcl/
== New in ActiveTcl 8.4.16 ==
A core patchlevel release with module updates, including:
* Updated Expect 5.44.1.3 (unicode changes)
* Updated Sqlite 3.4.1
* Updated Tcllib 1.10
* Updated tDom 0.8.2
* Updated XOTcl 1.5.5
Download ActiveTcl 8.4.16 now:
http://www.activestate.com/store/activetcl
== New in ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9 ==
Adds new Tcl/Tk source features, including:
* TDK 8.5b1 core
* dict command
* New lassign and lrepeat commands
* expr ** exponentiation operator
* namespace ensembles support
* source -encoding switch
* unload command
* Text widget smooth scrolling, multi-line search
* Anti-aliased font support on X-Windows (already supported on Win/Mac)
* Updated look of radiobutton and checkbutton, and tri-state option.
* send officially supported on Windows
* Updates to the grid geometry manager
* Fully themed (native) widget set
Download ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9 now:
http://www.activestate.com/products/activetcl/beta_download.plex
=== Getting Started ===
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Enjoy!
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Andreas Kupries <andr...@ActiveState.com>
Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
Ian Gay
news:sa6hclg...@gila.activestate.com:
>
> ActiveState is pleased to announce ActiveTcl 8.4.16, a core
> patchlevel release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl
> distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX;
> and ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9, based on the upcoming Tcl/Tk 8.5
> release.
>
[snip]
>== New in ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9 ==
[snip]
> * Anti-aliased font support on X-Windows (already supported on
Are you sure? I downloaded the Linux binary today, and the fonts are
definitely worse-looking than with 8.5a4 which I compiled with
--enable-xft
[snip]
> --
> Andreas Kupries <andr...@ActiveState.com>
> Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
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system (Windows XP)?
I need to figure out how to have both available for testing
compatibility with
binary extensions I'm developing
/Ashok
On Sep 27, 7:32 pm, andre...@activestate.com (Andreas Kupries (AS
Bryan Oakley
> Is it possible for ActiveState 8.4 and 8.5b0 to co-exist on the same
> system (Windows XP)?
> I need to figure out how to have both available for testing
> compatibility with
> binary extensions I'm developing
Yes, they co-exist fine.
Keith Nash
> [snip]
>>== New in ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9 ==
> [snip]
>> * Anti-aliased font support on X-Windows (already supported on
>
> Are you sure? I downloaded the Linux binary today, and the fonts are
> definitely worse-looking than with 8.5a4 which I compiled with
> --enable-xft
>
>
> [snip]
I've built 8.5b1 from source with --enable-xft, and also installed ActiveTcl
8.5.0 Beta 9. The ActiveTcl release does not use xft.
I hope xft will be enabled in ActiveTcl 8.5.0 as it is a huge improvement.
Some betas with xft would be a good idea, as there are issues to be
resolved with family and size of fonts.
Keith.
suchenwi
> Is it possible for ActiveState 8.4 and 8.5b0 to co-exist on the same
> system (Windows XP)?
Yes. I installed 8.5b1 yesterday in D:/Tcl85, while my regular 8.4 is
in D:/Tcl.
The only thing to consider is that 8.5 doesn't come with the many libs
8.4 does, so one might copy needed extensions (like Img, tdom) from
the 8.4 tree to the 8.5 tree.
Aric Bills
I could be wrong about this, but it's been my impression that
ActiveState intended for the two distributions to live in the same
directory. As far as I can tell, someone has gone to great lengths to
ensure that all version-specific files have version-specific names so
that nothing vital gets overwritten. The upside is that you only need
one copy of the extensions and other shared files. I'm no "power
user", but I've had the two versions living in the same directory for
well over a year with no problems.
Jeff Hobbs
> andr...@activestate.com (Andreas Kupries (AS Dev)) wrote in
> news:sa6hclg...@gila.activestate.com:
>
>> ActiveState is pleased to announce ActiveTcl 8.4.16, a core
>> patchlevel release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl
>> distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX;
>> and ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9, based on the upcoming Tcl/Tk 8.5
>> release.
>>
> [snip]
>> == New in ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9 ==
> [snip]
>> * Anti-aliased font support on X-Windows (already supported on
>
> Are you sure? I downloaded the Linux binary today, and the fonts are
> definitely worse-looking than with 8.5a4 which I compiled with
> --enable-xft
We have an issue with the build machine that we use in that it has a
botched Xft release. We'll need to find a new distro to base our builds
off of to correct this problem.
Jeff
joheid
wrote:
> ActiveState is pleased to announce ActiveTcl 8.4.16, a core patchlevel
> release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl distribution for Windows,
> Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX; and ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 9,
> based on the upcoming Tcl/Tk 8.5 release.
>
new version will also be available for l_64, but if I understand the
AS-website correctly, it's still l_32 only.
Greetings from Berlin ..
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joheid at ttiger.in-berlin.de