Mac OS X Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.9 Binary Release Announcement
Dec 8, 2004

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Mac OS X binary
distributions for Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.9, the Mac OS X native port of the
Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit; bundled with over fifty
popular extensions.

The distributions are downloadable as compressed disk images from the
Tcl/Tk Aqua file release page on SourceForge:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86100&release_id=288380
http://snurl.com/b7bc

Three variants are available:

* TclTkAquaBI: Batteries-Included distribution, includes over fifty
popular extensions (c.f. list below), as well as the Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.5a2
alpha release. This is a superset of ActiveState's ActiveTcl
distribution (on other platforms).
Installs in systemwide locations, administrator password required.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAquaBI-8.4.9.0.dmg (33.5M)

* TclTkAqua: smaller distribution of just the TclTk frameworks, Wish,
tclsh and html docs (including debug versions of library binaries).
Installs in systemwide locations, administrator password required.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAqua-8.4.9.dmg (4.9M)

* TclTkAquaStandalone: drag & drop install capable, self-contained
version of Wish with embedded TclTk frameworks (no debug binaries
or documentation included). Can be used off read-only media and
installed by unprivileged users. (1.3M)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAquaStandalone-8.4.9.dmg

Note that these downloads require Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
Mac OS X 10.2 and earlier are no longer supported.

For more information, please visit
* the TclTkAqua binary distributions homepage
http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/
* the Tcl Developer Xchange Tcl/Tk 8.4 information page
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html
* the Tcl project page on SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/tcl/
* the SourceForge Tcl Foundry
http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/
* the Tcl Developer Xchange:
http://www.tcl.tk/

Regards,
Daniel A. Steffen
das@users.sourceforge.net

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The Tcl/Tk Aqua Batteries-Included distribution contains the following
packages:

. Tcl/Tk 8.4.9
. Tcl/Tk Manpages 8.4.9
. Thread 2.6
TclX 8.4
. TclVfs 1.3
Expect 5.42
. Tcllib, Tklib 1.7
. BWidget 1.7
Mclistbox 1.02
. XOTcl 1.3.4
. IncrTcl 3.3
. IWidgets 4.0.2
. TkTable 2.9
Vu 2.2
TkHtml 2.0
. Tile 0.6
. TkImg 1.3
. Treectrl 1.1
. Tix 8.4
. TclXML, TclDOM, TclXSLT 3.1
TclSOAP 1.6.7
. tDOM 0.8.0
. Memchan 2.2.1
Trf 2.1p2
TrfCrypt 2.0p3
TLS 1.5.0
+ TclUDP 1.0.6
+ TclCurl 0.12.2
TclODBC 2.5
. TclSQLite 2.8.15
+ TclSQLite3 3.0.8
. TclHttpd 3.5.2
. TclJava 1.3.1
Tbcload, Compiler, Parser 1.4
. SWIG 1.3.24
. Mk4Tcl, Oomk 2.4.9.3
. Snack 2.2.9
TcLex 1.2
TclAE 2.0
TclAppleScript 1.0
. TclResource 1.1.1
. QuickTimeTcl 3.1b3
TclSpeech 2.0
. TclAddressBook 1.1.2
MacCarbonPrint 0.2
e4Graph 1.0a12
. Tkcon 2.4
. TclApps 2004-12-05
+ TclDES 0.8
+ TclTutorial 2004-12-03
. Tclkit, SDX, Critcl, Wikit 8.4.9
. Wishkit 8.4.9
CritLib 2003-04-10
Launcher 1.1
. Tcl/Tk Prerelease 8.5a2

Packages with '+' have been added and packages with '.' have been
updated since the release of the 8.4.7.0 BI distribution.

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--- About Tcl/Tk ---

Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and a very
portable
interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and
has
been used by companies and organizations world-wide since its creation
in
1988 by John Ousterhout.

As a language, it is much like UNIX shell languages. There is very
little
syntax and it is easy to learn. It is used to glue together building
blocks built in system programming languages like C, C++, and Java.
These
building blocks appear as commands, or verbs, in the script language.
It
is easy to embed Tcl into a legacy program so you can script the
behavior
of that program and add in other building blocks like a GUI interface.
The
Tcl interpreter is written in C and has been ported to almost every
computer platform.

Tk is a portable GUI toolkit for Tcl, it allows simple and dynamic
creation
of graphical interfaces that run on Mac, Windows, UNIX and other
platforms.

Check out the SourceForge Tcl Foundry:
http://tcl.foundries.sourceforge.net/

Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:
http://www.tcl.tk/

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Tcl/Tk 8.4.9 Release Announcement
December 7, 2004

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.9 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the ninth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. 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:
------------------------------

Tcl/Tk 8.4.9 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.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

Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from:

http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

Mac OS X binaries are available from:

http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/

Additionally, SuSE Linux RPMs are available from:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/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.

Thank you for your contributions:
---------------------------------

As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community.
We have a page honoring these contributors at:

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.8:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.9. 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.

* Fixed segfault in info vars trivial matching branch (new in 8.4.8)

* Fixed the treatment of backslashes in file join on Windows

* Improved readdir_r detection and usage on unix

* Fixed potential unix fileevent issue on 64-bit systems

* Remove file normalize on tcl_findLibrary search path uniqification
added in 8.4.8

* Ensure tilde paths are not returned specially by 'glob'

* Fixed clipping of partially transparent images on buttons on unix to
avoid X error

* Fix Tk_PhotoPut(Zoomed)Block overlay compositing of partially
transparent areas on blank targets

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.7:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.8. 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.

* Fixed possible deadlock in Tcl_Finalize

* Fixed thread IDs on 64-bit systems

* Fixed [scan %ld] handling LP64 systems

* Fixed [string map $samevar $samevar] crash

* Fixed broken [namespace forget] logic

* Fixed [namespace import] cycle prevention

* Improved control over int (-) wideInt conversion

* Fixed buffer overflow when there is a syntax error in [subst]

* Fixed [file executable] result for case insensitivity on Windows

* Fixed [expr {NaN == NaN}] result

* Make [tcl_findLibrary] search $::auto_path as well

* Fixed crash in [fconfigure -ttycontrol] in threaded build

* [TIP 222] implementation of [wm attributes -alpha] on Windows

* [TIP 159] implementation of [wm iconphoto]

* Make Tk [load]-able on OS X/Aqua

* Handle color/screen resolution changes on Windows

* Fixed [wm resizable] for Solaris/CDE

* Handle Windows native dialog double clicks that fall through

* Fixed [place forget] memory leak

* Recompute menu geometry on named font size change

* Fixed X/IME IC focus after creation

* Improved multiple display Tk dialog window placement

* Fixed compound buttons for OS X/Aqua

* Documentation improvements and test suite expansion

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Tcl/Tk 8.5a2 Release Announcement
December 7, 2004

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5a2 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second alpha 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:
------------------------------

Tcl/Tk 8.5a2 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

Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries 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.

Thank you for your contributions:
---------------------------------

As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community.
We have a page honoring these contributors at:

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.5a1:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5a1. 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 release is the second alpha release of 8.5. The alpha moniker
means
that it is in feature addition mode. All relevant bugs fixes (and some
more) up to and including 8.4.9 changes are included in 8.5a2. The
following list focuses on new features added so far in 8.5. This
release
is a development release, and should only be considered for deployment
use after considerable testing.

* Removed support for Mac OS Classic platform
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

* Made registry package [unload]able

* [TIP 163] Add [dict merge] subcommand

* Refactored Tcl header file #include order. Might create need for
changes in extensions that #include private headers.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

* [TIP 129] Add [binary scan tnmrRqQ] formats

* [TIP 142] Add [interp limit] resource limiter

* Bytecode execution of {expand} changed
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with prior 8.5a releases ***

* [TIP 188] Add [string is wideinteger] class check

* [TIP 202] Add exec/open pipe redirection 2)@1

* [TIP 207] Add [interp invokehidden -namespace]

* [TIP 173,209] Complete [clock] rewrite for better i18n and l10n
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

* [TIP 189] Package loading for Tcl Modules

* Defer syntax errors during bytecompile to runtime

* Auto-create [dict] key paths

* Reform errorInfo, errorCode management
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY for traces on those vars ***

* [TIP 201] "in" and "ni" expr operators (for lsearch)

* [TIP 212] Add [dict update] and [dict with] subcommands

* [TIP 217] Add [lsort -indices] option

* Reform replaced bit flag values with macros for Var handling
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY for accesses to Var internals ***

* install msgcat, http, tcltest as TM's

* Made -blocking option of channel during [close] consistent on
Windows
with Unix
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

* [TIP 221] Add [interp bgerror] handler hook

* [TIP 226] Add Tcl_(Save|Restore|Discard)InterpState C APIs

* [TIP 227] Add Tcl_(Get|Set)ReturnOptions C APIs

* [TIP 152] Add -detail option for tk_messageBox

* [TIP 153] Enhanced 'winfo toplevel' to recognize non-Tk windows

* Enable Unicode characters in wm title on X11

* [TIP 158] Allow Windows apps to distinguish keys on the keypad using
the Extended modifier

* [TIP 168] Add -smooth method for alternative bezier curve
implementations on canvas items

* [TIP 165] Add %d binding substitution for user-controlled data field

* [TIP 169] Allow for text peering with '$text peer' widget subcommand

* [TIP 205] Use pkgconfig Database to register Xft support

* [TIP 204] Add virtual events for keyboard traversal

* [TIP 177, 179] Add -hide and -stretch options to panedwindow widget

* Documentation improvements and test suite expansion