[MACTCL] Re: TclTkAqua Standalone question

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

Ken,

On Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004, at 05:21 Australia/Sydney, Ken Newman wrote:

> Sorry to bother you, I sent a mail to the list but it's not getting
> posted and I know that 8.4.5 final is
> going up soon...

I've seen your mail on the list, so it seems to have worked...

> Just wondering if you can confirm that the Standalone version of 8.4.4
> or 8.4.5 works on *both*
> Jaguar and Panther?  I've released an app using Standalone 8.4.4 that
> works great on Jaguar,
> but apparently exits immediately on Panther.

the standalone version of 8.4.5 built on Jaguar works fine for me on  
Panther, and AFAIK the same was true for 8.4.4

>   All it uses is Tcl, Tk,
> and QuicktimeTcl, installed
> in the app bundle.

it's possible that the 8.4.4.0 QuicktimeTcl built on 10.2 does not work  
on 10.3, I haven't tested that.

for debugging, it would help if you could give us the error output when  
your app exits on Panther from console.log (or the terminal when you  
start the app from there).

Could you try with the new 8.4.5 binaries in
	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/8.4.5b1/
i.e.
	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/8.4.5b1/tar/TclTkAquaStandalone- 
8.4.5.tar.gz
	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/8.4.5b1/tar/QuickTimeTcl-3.1.tar.gz

(these are both built on Jaguar)

> I don't have Panther yet, so can't give much detail.  I found from the
> list a version of 8.4.4 Standalone
> built on Panther - I tried that (installed same stuff in the bundle)  
> and
> it exits immediately on Jaguar.

that's not surprising and is a know issue, you want to distribute  
binaries built on the oldest platform that you need to support.

> I really need this app so I don't even want to switch to Panther unless
> all the TclTkAqua stuff works,
> especially the Standalone, on both 10.2 and 10.3 so I only need to
> provide a single version.
> Thanks for making the distributions available!

Cheers,

Daniel

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