[PD] Tcl/Tk 8.6.0

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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>> From: michael noble <looplog at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: [PD] Tcl/Tk 8.6.0
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>> Archlinux has bumped Tcl/Tk to the recently released 8.6.0 version.
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>> I'm in no hurry to upgrade, but was wondering if the new version is likely to cause problems for Pd in the same way as the move from 8.4.0 to 8.5.0?
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> There's really no way to tell without trying it out. 8.6 is _extremely_ new, though, so I wouldn't
> be surprised if there are some bugs here and there.
> Looks like it has png support, and some new commands for moving canvas items, as well as
> native oo support.  There's also a "try" command that looks pretty nice.
> 
> List of changes:
> http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html

Tcl/Tk 8.6 has been in the works for years, so I wouldn't say its entirely new.  But yes, a lot has changed since 8.5, which was released 5 years ago.  I plan to switch all the Pd-extended builds to it once 0.43.4 is out.  So its good to hear that so far, its working fine :)

Tcl/Tk 8.6 is also already in Ubuntu/raring and Debian/sid.

.hc