Re: [MACTCL] AquaTcl/Tk on Tiger

[Bill N. <w.n...@un...>]

>> Does anyone know if the Apple supplied Tcl/Tk includes any  
>> modifications
>> against the sourceforge code?
>>
>
> I think some packets are missing from the Apple version. The  
> differences
> were specified on the Aqua Tcl webpage somewhere.
>
I spent some more time on this and downloaded the source for the  
Tcl-20 package in Darwin.

There is a substantial diff file for Tk, although I don't know if  
these are Apple specific mods or just ones that have been  
subsequently used in the main tree.

Also, although I have not managed to get Tcl-20 to build completely,  
it obviously includes stuff like the Private Headers and tclsh which  
missing from the Tiger distribution.  The Tiger distribuion seems to  
split over 2 packages Essentials.pkg in the main install and  
BSDSDK.pkg which is part of Xcode and includes the headers.

Perhaps Dan can cast some light on the intention here.
>
> But the BI installer will almost certainly install a newer Tcl/Tk and
> newer versions of the packages.

I don't subscribe to the Linux 'shovel it all in tested-or-not'  
philosophy.  I guess that is why I use a Mac, and wherever I can, I  
prefer to use tested system software rather than something I knocked  
up myself.
>
> One could imagine a special BI Tiger installer that only installs the
> "missing" packages for Tiger using Tiger's Tcl/Tk. But the usual Aqua
> Tcl/Tk BI installer probably has no reason to be clever.

It would be good to have two Tiger installs.  One with the missing  
packages and the other with a Tk-X11 framework for things like BLT or  
R which don't play well with the Aqua one.

Bill Northcott