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[MACTCL] ANNOUNCE: Mac Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 Binary Release
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From: Daniel A. S. <da...@us...> - 2001-05-17 15:01:12
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Macintosh Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 Binary Release Announcement May 17, 2001 We are pleased to announce the availability of Macintosh binaries for the recent 8.3.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.3. More details can be found below. An installer appropriate for most users is available for direct download at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/TclTk_8.3.3_RuntimeInstall.bin For Tcl Developers, a more complete installer containing additional binaries, CodeWarrior projects and complete sources is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894&release_id=30592 For more information, please visit * the Tcl project page on SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/tcl/ * the SourceForge Tcl Foundry http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/ * the Tcl Developer Xchange: http://dev.Scriptics.com/ http://tcl.ActiveState.com/ Regards, Daniel A. Steffen da...@us... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mac specific changes/fixes for Mac Tcl/Tk 8.3.3, May 4, 2001 --- * The following are the main mac specific changes since 8.3.2p1: - use of DLLIMPORT and DLLEXPORT like on other platforms, no longer use .exp files to determine what gets exported from DLLs, this also needs the #defines BUILD_tcl, BUILD_tk & STATIC_BUILD to be setup properly, thus - revised precompiled header handling: we now include a common header file 'MW_TclHeaderCommon.h' from all .pch files, the .pch files themselves now only setup #defines like in makefiles on other platforms. - added support for -filetypes option to tk_getSaveFile (tcl bug #221636) - added update event handling for background windows while in a NavigationMgr dialog - fixed crashing bug and memory leak in memory allocation code; modernized memory allocation, now use temporary memory instead of system heap when application heap is full and use RecoverHandle instead of memory allocation tracking; increased fraction of application heap reserved for OS routines to 512K. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- About Tcl/Tk --- Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and a very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been used by companies and organizations world-wide since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. As a language, it is much like UNIX shell languages. There is very little syntax and it is easy to learn. It is used to glue together building blocks built in system programming languages like C, C++, and Java. These building blocks appear as commands, or verbs, in the script language. It is easy to embed Tcl into a legacy program so you can script the behavior of that program and add in other building blocks like a GUI interface. The Tcl interpreter is written in C and has been ported to almost every computer platform. Tk is a portable GUI toolkit for Tcl, it allows simple and dynamic creation of graphical interfaces that run on Mac, Windows, UNIX and other platforms. Check out the SourceForge Tcl Foundry: http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/ An informal survey shows over 100 Tcl-related SourceForge projects Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site: http://dev.Scriptics.com/ http://tcl.ActiveState.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 Release Announcement April 9, 2001 We are pleased to announce the 8.3.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.3. More details can be found below. We'd like to thank all those that submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information for us to identify problems in the core. Where to get the new releases: ------------------------------ Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 sources are freely available in from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at: http://dev.Scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html http://tcl.ActiveState.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html This web page also contains additional information about the releases, including new features and notes about installing and compiling the releases. Windows and Linux binaries are available from: http://www.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Tcl/Downloads/ For additional information: --------------------------- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site: http://dev.Scriptics.com/ http://tcl.ActiveState.com/ This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much more. Thank you for your contributions: --------------------------------- As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community. Tcl/Tk is maintained by the community, with the sources and bug database at SourceForge: http://tcl.SourceForge.net/ Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Tcl an even better language. Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.3.2: -------------------------------------- The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.3.3. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes. 1. Improved Mac build structure, build support for AIX-5 and Win64, as well as improved build support for IRIX-5 and Mac OS X. 2. Fixed race condition in readability of socket on Windows. 3. Fixed handling of timeout for threads (corrects excessive CPU usage issue for Tk on Unix in threaded Tcl environment). 4. Improved efficiency of [string split]. 5. Corrected parsing of $tcl_libPath at startup and use of tclLibraryPath in the threaded environment on Windows. 6. Enhanced handling of {!<boolean>} in expressions. 7. Corrected excessive mem use of info exists on a non-existent array element. 8. Corrected a memory leak in the channel code. 10. Added support for changing IME on the fly in Windows 2000 11. Added Windows icon support in [wm iconbitmap]. 12. Corrected support for iso10646-1 fonts (unicode on X). -- ** Daniel A. Steffen ** ** <mailto:da...@us...> ** |
