Re: Newer Tcl?

["MarK Stucky" <mstucky5 at home dot com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Newer Tcl?


> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:13:07PM -0700, Sandeep Tamhankar wrote:
> >Are there any plans in the work for building a more recent cygtclsh?
> >The most recent stable version is 8.3.3 and the current cygtclsh is
8.0.
>
> If you follow the insight mailing list you might see that there has
been
> some discussion about updating tcl on sources.redhat.com.
>
> As soon as that happens, I'll be able to update the version released
with
> cygwin.  It won't happen before then.
>
> I don't have a timeframe for this, so don't ask.  It's not my project.
>
> cgf


FYI...

This was posted on comp.lang.tcl a few weeks back.
I've tried it and so far everything seems to be
working...   :)

--Mark



----- Original Message -----
From: Peter N. Schweitzer <pschweitzer@usgs.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
To: <jwb@nexus.csse.monash.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Tcl 8.3 in Cygwin?


> Jim Breen wrote:
> > >>If you are really in the mood to do some
> > >>hacking and you need a version of Tcl that depends on cygwin1.dll,
> > >>I could send you some of our local patches and you could hack
> > >>on it yourself (this would be a bit of work).
> >
> > I'm not in the mood to hack "standard" software. Leave that
> > to younger people.
>
> Jim,
>
> Don't know whether I qualify under that criterion, but I have
> built Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 using Cygwin.  It required changes to the
> source code that are indicated in a patch file provided by
> Mumit Khan.  The interpretation of his patches has to be
> somewhat liberal, however, since they were based on 8.3.0
> and some things have changed since then.  But the basic
> ideas are sound.
>
> For your convenience, I've tarred and gzipped the whole
> build tree (sources, objects) and put the bundle on an
> ftp site at ftp://geology.usgs.gov/pub/misc/tcltk.tgz
> There's a README.txt file in the same directory that
> you might want to pick up too.  The tcltk.tgz is 6.5MB.
>
> This should be regarded as a one-time transfer, as I'm
> not the right person to provide a supported version, and
> thus wouldn't (couldn't, shouldn't) keep it up-to-date.
> But if it works for you, that might be helpful.  And
> obviously anyone else who wants it can have it, with
> the same understanding.
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter N. Schweitzer (MS 918, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192)
> (703) 648-6533  FAX: (703) 648-6560  email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov
> <http://geology.usgs.gov/peter/>


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