Mac OS X Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.4 Binary Release Announcement
Aug 6, 2003

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Mac OS X binary
distributions for Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.4, the Mac OS X native port of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit.

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=175874

Three variants are available:

* TclTkAquaBI: Batteries-Included distribution, includes many popular
extensions (c.f. list below). 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-8.4.4.0.dmg (15.3M)

* TclTkAqua: smaller distribution of just the TclTk frameworks, Wish,
tclsh and html docs (including debug versions of the frameworks).
Installs in systemwide locations, administrator password required.
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAqua-8.4.4.dmg (4.8M)

* TclTkAquaStandalone: drag & drop install capable, self-contained
version of Wish with embedded TclTk frameworks (no debug frameworks
or documentation included). Can be used off read-only media and
installed by unprivileged users. (1.7M)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAquaStandalone-8.4.4.dmg

Note that these distributions require at least Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar);
Mac OS X 10.1 is 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

--- 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 8.4.4 Release Announcement
July 22, 2003

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.4 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fourth 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 8.4.4 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

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 8.4.3:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.4. 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.

* Reverted cmdName Tcl_ObjType change to allow extensions that poke
into Tcl_Obj ptr internals to function again (TclBlend, e4graph, ...)

* Stop eval of bytecode in a deleted interp

* Mac OS X build system rewrite

* Numerous doc improvements

* Corrected segfault in invalid 'if' statement parsing

* Enable -DTCL_UTF_MAX=6 during build to indicate UCS-4 mode.
This is not the recommended build mode (UCS-2 remains the default).

* 64-bit corrections in thread notifier

* Safe base tests normalized paths

* Improved cygwin path support (when building with cygwin libraries)

* Improved MT-safety of VFS filesystem records

* Recognize user:password in URL for http::geturl

* Improved menu and image cleanup on exit

* Correct call to XCloseIM based on X version

* Correct last pane sizing in panedwindow and cursor handling with
adjacent panedwindows

* Prevent XGetGeometry call for each string drawn

* Correct XCreateIC call for TK_XIM_SPOT usage

* Provide consistency between unix and windows -cursor option

* Correctly handle the -sliderrelief option while moving the thumb