[PD] Tcl/Tk 8.6.0

[michael noble]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: michael noble <looplog at gmail.com>
> >> To: PD send List <pd-list at iem.at>
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:53 AM
> >> Subject: [PD] Tcl/Tk 8.6.0
> >>
> >>
> >> Archlinux has bumped Tcl/Tk to the recently released 8.6.0 version.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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


Thanks all for the replies. I guess it's a case of testing the waters, but
from the looks of things there are no major problems as of yet.
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