I've just started playing with TCL and I have a REAL newbie question. JH: Earlier versions of ActiveTcl are available via Business Edition. IL: Is there someplace where someone can retrieve earlier distros of ActiveTcl? The big iron platforms require a Business Edition license to run ActiveTcl. JH: The commodity platforms still have free access. How does ActiveTcl Business Edition impact what parts of ActiveTcl one will be permitted to freely access via teacup?
In theory, you could also download and build yourself, and then install it somewhere for tcl to find.
If the repository owner hasn't updated to contain the latest version, then you can't update that way.
LV: Certainly teacup can update - if the newer items are available within the teapot repository you specify.
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ActiveTcl Pro Studio a commercial bundle of Komodo, Tcl Dev Kit, Expect for Windows and a subscription to ActiveState's ASPN (ActiveState Programmers Network). Expect for Windows an up-to-date port of Expect to Windows for Tcl 8.4, now a part of ActiveTcl for Windows. Based upon TclPro, a commercial product, including a variety of useful developer tools, and works with whatever ActiveTcl it finds. Other products offered by ActiveState are Tcl Dev Kit aka Tcl Developer's Kit. These arrays should be available in both the tclsh and the base-tcl (or base-tk) that is bundled in ActiveTcl. Which both provide you with information about the specific build number, date the build occurred, platforms, etc. When reporting problems under ActiveTcl, make use of
Business Edition offers commercially-available access to archival versions and binaries for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, as well as support.
It started out as a Batteries Included effort to bring together in one binary distribution a variety of Tcl extensionsĪctiveState offers the ActiveTcl in 3 variations Community Edition a freely-available version of the latest release for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Disambiguation ActiveTcl (Frankinet) an unrelated project DescriptionĪctiveTcl, by ActiveState is a distribution of Tcl and Tk, coupled with a repository (conceptually similar to CPAN, as used by Perl, or the various Linux distribution package repositories).