[PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.54-0 test 1 released

[Christof Ressi]

> To make things more fun, the TclTk included in the mac/stuff/ (which is the version that most people will get when building the app themselves) is one that crashed for me.
Side note: we should really update the prototypes for macOS and Windows 
at one point. msw/pdprototype.tgz still contains Tcl/Tk 8.5...

Christof

On 21.06.2023 18:57, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> Am 21. Juni 2023 12:42:25 MESZ schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
>> I think min Tk version for macOS and tabs should be 8.6.10 or 11. We may possible also need an os version check, hopefully not.
> My code explicitly checks for TclTk<<8.6.12 (and >= 8.6), so I think I tested and it crashed with 8.6.11.
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> To make things more fun, the TclTk included in the mac/stuff/ (which is the version that most people will get when building the app themselves) is one that crashed for me.
> Luckily, the version that is used for the app distributed by miller (and built on the iem premises), is a newer one, that is known to work.
> So most "users" should get a version that is good.
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>> The main thing to avoid is if anyone runs an older Tk 8.6, especially the buggy one that used to be included with macOS itself.
> And please do not forget that we are still trying to support macOS versions (and possibly OSX versions) that are rather old and cannot use a newer TclTk.
> Or there is some signing/notarization issue (eg Apple refusing to notarize binaries that also contain 32bit intel code).
> The point is: it is not obviously simple to "just switch to the latest and greatest" if we want to keep our obsolescence doctrine.
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> IOhannes
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