[TCLCORE] Re: Maintainer for Mac OS 8/9 (WAS RE: The Big TIP Round-Up - Tip 51)

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Larry,


"Larry W. Virden" <lv...@ca...> writes:
> However, does the quote above imply, then, that all Tk extensions
> and apps will compile without changes against AquaTk?  If that is
> not the case, then will they compile without changes against the X
> Windows version of MacTk?

Mac OS X has a Unix-based development system.  So the TEA build system
works fine.  Which is a huge difference, as it doesn't work on Mac OS
Classic.

Tcl extensions can just use the Unix API on Mac OS X if they need to.

Tk extensions can use the Tk stubs table, which provides a number of
X11 compatibility APIs even with Tk/Aqua, the same as on Windows.

X11-based Tk extensions that need more of X11 should build and work
fine on Tk/X11.  But average Mac users are not very happy with
unported X11 applications, so if you can avoid depending on X11, you
should.


benny