On 8/4/14, 5:40 AM, Peter Tomcsanyi wrote:
"Kevin Walzer" <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote in message
news:lrmc0r$suj$1...@dont-email.me...
New releases of Tcl/Tk 8.5 and 8.6 are due out soon; right now they
are undergoing final testing as betas/release candidates.
Thanks for the promising news.
Where should I look for the announcement that there is something new?
Is this the correct place?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/
You can check comp.lang.tcl for an announcement.
But will be the 8.5. branch updated, too?
I need 8.5 because CPython on Mac does not yet use 8.6...
I cannot see there 8.5.15.1 (at least that is how ActiveTcl is numbered)
which solved some oter Mavericks issues in October 2013 (all 8.5. files
are older than October 2013)...
So will be there a 8.5.16?
8.5 and 8.6 will be updated.
you can download the source tarballs for Tcl and Tk when they are
released, untar them to a specific directory, cd to the directory, and
run these commands:
make -C $insert_tcl_dirname_here/macosx
make -C $insert_tk_dirname_here/macosx
and then
sudo make -C $insert_tcl_dirname_here/macosx install
sudo make -C $insert_tk_dirname_here/macosx install
I have some command line skills and I have the command line developer
tools installed (is that enough?), but I am not sure if I understand
which directory's name is $insert_tcl_dirname_here (I suppose that the $
sign belongs to the name of the "variable", am I right?). Is it the
directory where I unterd tcl (and which is under the directory where i
cd-ed to)?
$insert_tcl_dirname = something like tcl8.5.16. Just look at the numbering.
In other words, you want a directory with two subdirectories: tcl8.5.16
and tk8.5.16 (since you are looking at 8.5).
This will install the updated version of Tcl and Tk in
/Library/Frameworks, and Python should pick them up.
Well, should...
I will try. But when I followed a similar procedure of installing the
tkpng package then after "sudo make install" it seemed to be ok, but it
was apparently added to other version of Tk than CPython is using...
Can somebody else confirm or disconfirm that the above procedure will
install the new Tcl/Tk to that place where CPython (that is already
installed) will pick it from? Or do I need to reinstall CPython after
this? Or...?
Where is your current installation of Python? The above instructions
assume that you are using the standard Python from python.org. As I
mentioned before, if you have installed things via a package manager
(brew, Fink or MacPorts) you will have to follow their instructions.
--Kevin
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