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

[Steve L. <st...@di...>]

Hi Kevin,

Well done!

Would you mind sharing the app name?

Steve

> On 27 Nov 2014, at 8:18 am, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Walzer
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