Re: [MACTCL] Tiger Compatibility

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

Mike,

On Saturday, Apr 30, 2005, at 07:55 Australia/Sydney, Mike Savory wrote:

> I am using Expect quite a bit here. It seem that Tiger 10.4 has TCL  
> 8.4.7 with expect built in.

yes, you can see what was submitted to Apple for Tiger inclusion  
here:	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/darwin-TclBI/tcl_ext/expect/
in particular, the Makefile.fetch there has
	CvsTag               = -D '2004-07-16 00:00:00 UTC'
which tells you what version of the expect sources was used

once the Darwin sources for Tiger are released, we can verify that this  
is indeed what made it into the OS

> Are there any problems/advantages in installing TclTkAquaBI-8.4.9.0 on  
> 10.4?

the only minor issue with the BI installer is that it will overwrite  
the existing /usr/bin/wish8.4 on Tiger (it does rename  
/usr/bin/tclsh8.4), you may want to rename wish8.4 to wish8.4.7 before  
installing the BI; I will fix this in the next BI release.
Since this file is just a two line script, it's also easy to restore it  
if you've overwritten it already, it should read:
	#!/bin/sh
	"$(dirname  
$0)/../../System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/ 
Resources/Wish Shell.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell" "$@"

I have noticed one small bug in Tiger with the install location of the  
OS provided sqlite3 tcl bindings: they are installed in  
/usr/lib/sqlite3 instead of in /System/Library/Tcl/sqlite3, this means  
that tclsh will find them but not wish. Adding the following symlink  
will fix it:
	ln -fsh ../../../usr/lib/sqlite3 /System/Library/Tcl/
I'll submit a radar about this.

> There have been no CVS commits to the TclTkAqua CVS for the last  
> month. This list seems much more active....

I usually only commit to the tcltkaqua CVS when I make a release, what  
you have to realize is that there is essentially just a Makefile and  
some patches in that repository, the sources of the extensions  
contained in the distribution come from ~50 other CVS repositories,  
many of which would have had updates in the last month...

Cheers,

Daniel

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