[MACTCL] Tcl/Tk apps now accepted by Mac App Store with bundled frameworks--no private API's remaining

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

Hi all,

I've just had an app accepted by the Mac App Store that ships with 
bundled Tcl/Tk frameworks, rather than linking to Apple's installed 
Tcl/Tk libraries. This means that all traces of private API's have been 
removed and it's safe to use modern versions of Tcl/Tk if you are 
submitting anything to the MAS.

The current released versions (8.5.17 and 8.6.3) still have a little bit 
of cruft in them: Apple flagged a couple of method calls in the C source 
code that I missed when I was working on this over the summer. So I 
committed the last set of deletions to core-8-5-branch and trunk at the 
Fossil repo in the last week or so; if you are planning to submit 
something to the MAS, you'll either need to wait for the next point 
release of Tcl/Tk (no idea when that is) or do a checkout of the latest 
sources and build them yourself.

Nonetheless, it's good news that we no longer have to depend on Apple's 
aging installation of Tcl/Tk if you are targeting their main application 
distribution channel.

Thanks,
Kevin

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