Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6.10 Release Candidates

[Paul O. <pa...@po...>]

Tested 8.6.10 with the packages included in the BAWT BI distribution.

It compiled on the following platforms:
Windows 8 MinGW 64-bit gcc 7.2.0
SUSE 13.2       32-bit gcc 4.8.1
SUSE 13.2       64-bit gcc 4.8.1
SUSE 42.3       64-bit gcc 4.8.5
Debian Jessie   64-bit gcc 4.9.2

if the bug in tkBind.c ( DEBUG(unsigned owned:1); ) was fixed
and all occurences of "None" were replaced with "NULL" in package tkpath.

Compilation of tclkit with MinGW 32-bit failed with the following error message:
./mykbsvq8.6-cli.exe -init- setupvfs.tcl kbsvq8.6-cli.exe cli
c:/BawtBuilds/TclBasic-8.6.10/Windows/x86/Release/Build/Tclkit/kbskit/mykbsvq8.6-cli.exe: -init- setupvfs.tcl kbsvq8.6-cli.exe cli
tcl8.6 dde registry vfs1.4.1 vqtcl4.1 with 762 files
application-specific initialization failed: could not get modification time for file "kbsvq8.6-cli.exe/lib/tcl8.6/tclIndex"

What has changed since 8.6.9 regarding 32-bit and 64-bit Windows support, which could cause this error?

Regards,
Paul

Am 04.10.2019 um 22:03 schrieb Donald G Porter via Tcl-Core:
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> Now available at
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> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.10/
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> are candidate files making up pre-releases of Tcl and Tk 8.6.10.
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> The pre-release of Tcl 8.6.10 includes pre-releases of Itcl 4.2.0, tdbc* 1.1.1, Thread 2.8.5, and another copy of sqlite3 3.29.0 (released in July) comes along for the ride too.
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> These will not be the release. At a minimum, release notes and changes files still require updates.
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> At this point I'm looking for build tests on as many platforms as you can manage, so a real release can happen soon with good confidence it isn't obviously broken.
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> I am also looking for any alerts from developers of Tk or the other bundled packages that the timing or contents of these snapshots of development are not a fitting state for a release. Don't be shy. If something pending should still go in, or something shaky should come out, this is the time to say so.
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> Please report any new troubles you encounter, particularly any that seem severe enough they should prevent release.
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