Tcl/Tk for Windows, bitWalk build #015
released on 2008-08-24
1. Available version of Tcl/Tk and extensions in this package
- Tcl/Tk 8.6a2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl
- Thread 2.6.5
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl
- Tcllib 1.10 (tcllib-20080820)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib
- Tklib 0.4 (tklib-20080819)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib
- BWidget 1.8.0 (bwidget-20080526)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib
- TkCon 2.5 (tkcon-20080207)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcon
2. build environment for compiling binaries
- MinGW Cross Compiler on Fedora Linux 9 (x86_64)
mingw-binutils-2.18.50-6.fc9
mingw-gcc-core-4.3.1-1.fc9
mingw-runtime-3.14-3.fc9
mingw-w32api-3.11-3.fc9
3. packaging environment
- Inno Setup Compiler 5.2.3
with wine-1.0-1.fc9 / Fedora Linux 9
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:05:04 -0400
From: Donald G Porter <dgp at nist.gov>
To: Tcl List Core <tcl-core at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6a2 releases
The files making up the 8.6a2 releases of Tcl and Tk are now at:
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_6/
The usual release announcement will be sent out as soon as the release
notes are written. By Monday at the latest.
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| Don Porter Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| donald.porter at nist.gov Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:23:20 -0400
From: Donald G Porter <dgp at nist.gov>
To: Tcl List Core <tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 RELEASED
Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 Release Announcement
August 15, 2008
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.4 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fourth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.5. More details can be found below. We would like to
express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches.
This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate
problems in the core.
Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
This web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features and notes about installing and compiling the
releases. Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge
project's file distribution area:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894
Binaries for most major platforms are available from:
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
For additional information:
---------------------------
Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:
http://www.tcl.tk/
This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more.
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.5.3:
--------------------------------------
The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.4. 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.
* Restored ability to compile Tk against the latest X header files
from X.org, which are incompatible with earlier Tk releases.
* Restored ability to embed non-stub-enabled Tk in a C program as a
static package using MSVC compilers, by providing a missing export.
* Restored ability to find packages on Samba shares on Windows.
* Fixed duplicate inode errors accessing native filesystem on Windows.
* Fixed crash in [ttk::scale].
* Fixed crashes in unmapped toplevel windows.
* Better internal rep preservation shimmering lists and dicts.
* Improved Tcl Module maintenance with automatic [package provide].
* Improved portability of value returned by [winfo id].
* Fixed rare panic in [scan].
--
Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
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| Don Porter Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| donald.porter at nist.gov Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|
すぐりふひと（須栗歩人）の処女作、入門 Tcl/Tk の初版第一刷が出版されて、今月で十年になりました。本書は幸い何刷かの増刷を重ね、僅かばかりの印税が入りましたが、版を重ねることなく廃版となってしまっています。
しかし Tcl/Tk との付き合いは、少し疎遠になったとは言え、今も続いています。エンジニアとしてもっと手軽に GUI を扱いたいという欲求から Tcl/Tk に出会ったからでしょう。もしその時、職業プログラマとして仕事になるプログラミング言語を求めていたとしたら、Tcl/Tk は選択肢にも挙がらなかっただろうし、その結果、数多のプログラマが群がる人気プログラミング言語では執筆するチャンスにも恵まれなかったように思います。
チャンスがあれば、また書きたいものだといつも思っていますが、この手の本の寿命は驚くほど短いので、そこそこ売れて増刷や、二版、三版と改訂でも重ねないかぎり、すぐに書店から姿を消し、世間からは忘れ去られてしまいます。だいたい、Tcl/Tk なんてポピュラーなプログラミング言語ではないので、版を重ねるほどの需要はないような気もします。
せめて、インターネット上では情報を発信しつづけようと思っています。
