[MACTCL] Re: MacTclTk 8.3.5 and Alpha8

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

Bernard,

On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002, at 17:57 Australia/Sydney, Bernard Desgraupes 
wrote:

> I installed yesterday your TclTk 8.3.5. Just fine.

thanks, good to know

> Just wanted to mention as a side effect that it breaks Alpha8. An 
> error message tells me
> (in french!) that MoreFilesCW.PPC.DLL--GenerateUniqueName can't be 
> found

ok, that's a good point, very annoying.
We've upgraded MoreFiles to 1.5.3 in 8.3.5 and use its new 
GenerateUniqueName in tcl instead of the old built in one, maybe that 
was a mistake.
The problem is that the version of the MoreFiles library embedded in 
Alpha8 is still 1.5.2 which doesn't have GenerateUniqueName... no easy 
way around that except upgrading the library in Alpha8 which is hard to 
do by hand...

> No worries, I can understand why. I just reinstalled 8.3.4 meanwhile

the next release of Alpha8 will be built against 8.4, so the version 
mismatch problem will go away since people will have to reinstall Tcl 
anyway.
BTW, I'm essentially done with the new Alpha8/X release, I'm waiting 
for 8.4.1 to go final at this point since we need a OS9 and OSX Tcl 
distribution for Alpha's purposes and I would rather not have to build 
the distros twice...

Cheers,

Daniel

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