Re: [Plplot-general] tcl and [incr tcl]

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

My comments apply to the latest stable plplot release, 5.0.1, which you
should get from www.sourceforge.net/projects/plplot as a file release.
This release supersedes any of our previous releases.

plplot-5.0.1 works well on Debian potato which has tcl/tk 8.2, and itcl3.1.
However, it does not work well in RedHat 6.2 which has tcl/tk 8.0.  So if
the configuration finds tcl/tk 8.0 or 8.1 it warns the user those those old
versions aren't supported and it disables tcl/tk.  The rest of plplot is
fine on RedHat 6.2.  For example, all cdemos, fdemos, and xw??.py demos run
well in that environment.

I assume that plplot will work well (including tcl and tk) on RedHat 7.0
since that distribution includes tcl/tk 8.3 and itcl3.1, but we don't
currently have a test box to make sure, so any reports would be welcome.

For other situations make sure you have at least tcl/tk 8.2, and you should
be all right.  

If you re-read your itcl documentation, my guess is they say that tcl/tk 8.0
is required *at minimum*.  Our minimum is a little higher (8.2) and works
well with itcl3.1.

Alan

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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Cavendish McKay wrote:

> I'm a little confused about tcl and [incr tcl] dependencies for
> plplot.  Plplot doesn't want to compile with tcl 8.0, but the latest
> version of [incr tcl] I have found seems to require tcl 8.0.x.  Am I
> missing something somewhere?
> 
> Cavendish
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