A basekit is a single-file binary executable into which is bundled a complete Tcl interpreter along with a virtual filesystem that contains all its standard built-in commands and scripts, and possibly also some collection of other Tcl packages and modules and extensions. This standalone executable acts as a hassle-free runtime for Starkits, but can also be used as a standard Tcl interpreter.
The bundling technology used by basekits first appeared in Tclkit, which is defined by its author to contain a specific set of packages. Any other interpreter/VFS bundle is not a tclkit, but simply another basekit.
The term 'basekit was first used by ActiveState to describe their interpreter bundles that did not conform to the Tclkit specification.
[anyone want to build a table that lists what extensions are in each basekit?]
The following table lists the package version numbers for the basekits above. The version numbers and availability come from the latest version available at the time of writing.
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ActiveTcl | Tclkit | Tclkit Lite | Tclkit Mobile | Tclkit-X11 | TixTclKit | Dqkit | kbskit(*bi) | KitCreator | Wize | |
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Tcl | 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, | 8.4, 8.5 | 8.4, 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.4, 8.5 | 8.5, 8.6 | 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 | 8.5 | ||
Tk | same as Tcl | same | same | same | same | same | same | same | ||
http | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
msgcat | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
opt | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
platform | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
tcl::tommath | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
tcltest | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | varies | ||
starkit | 1.3.3 | 1.3.1 | 1.2 | 1.3.1 | 1.3.3 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.1 | |||
Incr Tcl | no | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 | no | |||
Metakit | 2.4.9.7 | 2.4.9.7 | 2.4.9.2 | 2.4.9.2 | 2.4.9.7 | 2.4.9.7 | no | |||
TclVFS | 1.4.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||
Registry | Win-only | same | same | same | no | 1.1.1 | Win-only | same | same | same |
DDE | Win-only | same | same | same | no | 1.2.1 | Win-only | same | same | same |
PWB (8.4) | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | no | no | 1.1 | no | |||
Rechan | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | no | 1.0 | no | |||
Zlib | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | no | |||
Thread | 2.6.5 (opt) | Win-only | no | 2.6.3 (opt) | 2.6.5 | 2.6.5 (opt) | no | |||
Ttrace | 2.6.5 (opt) | Win-only | no | 2.6.3 (opt) | 2.6.5 | 2.6.5 (opt) | no | |||
Tclx | no | no | no | ??? | (8.4) | no | 8.4 | |||
TDBC | no | no | no | no | 1.0b1 | no | no | |||
BLT | no | no | no | 2.4 | no | no | 2.4 | |||
Tix | no | no | 8.2 | no | no | no | 8.4.3 | |||
SQLite | no | no | 2.0 | 2.0 | no | no | no | |||
SQLite3 | no | no | no | 3.3.4 | (3.6.20) | no | 3.6.13 | |||
tclodbc | no | no | 2.3 | no | no | no | no | |||
Expect | no | no | no | 5.43.0 | no | no | 5.44.1.11 | |||
Itk | no | no | no | 3.3 | (3.4) | no | no | |||
Iwidgets | no | no | no | 4.0.2 | (4.0.2) | no | no | |||
mysqltcl | no | no | no | 2.0 | no | no | no | |||
Pgtcl | no | no | no | 1.5 | no | no | no | |||
tbcload | no | no | 1.4 | 1.4 | no | no | 1.4 | |||
Tktable | no | no | 2.8 | no | (2.10) | no | 2.9 | |||
tile | no | no | no | 0.7.2 | no | no | no | |||
autoscroll | no | no | 1.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
BWidget | no | no | 1.6 | no | (1.8.0) | no | no | |||
ctext | no | no | 3.1 | no | no | no | no | |||
cwind | no | no | 1.3.1 | no | no | no | no | |||
emu_graph | no | no | 1.1 | no | no | no | no | |||
ffidl | no | no | ??? | no | no | no | no | |||
gbutton | no | no | 0.2 | no | no | no | no | |||
iniparse | no | no | 1.4 | no | no | no | no | |||
mentry | no | no | 2.6 | no | (3.3) | no | no | |||
mkGeneric | no | no | 1.3 | no | no | no | no | |||
mkTables | no | no | 1.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
optcl | no | no | 3.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
snit | no | no | 0.81 | no | no | no | no | |||
tablelist | no | no | 3.3 | no | (4.12) | no | no | |||
tdom | no | no | 0.7.8 | no | (0.8.2) | no | no | |||
tdomhtml | no | no | 0.1.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
tkdnd | no | no | 1.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
tnc | no | no | 0.3 | no | no | no | no | |||
wcb | no | no | 2.8 | no | (3.2) | no | no | |||
Wikit | no | no | 1.0 | no | no | no | no | |||
winutils | no | no | 0.8 | no | no | no | no | |||
compiler | no | no | 1.4 | no | no | no | 1.4 | |||
TclCurl | no | no | 0.10.5 | no | no | no | no | |||
snack | no | no | no | no | no | no | 2.2 | |||
Img | no | no | no | no | (1.4) | no | 1.2.4 | |||
vu | no | no | no | no | no | no | 2.1.0 | |||
treectrl | no | no | no | no | (2.2.9) | no | 2.2.8 | |||
tkhtml | no | no | no | no | no | no | ??? | |||
Shaped | no | no | no | no | no | no | 0.1 | |||
Canvas3d | no | no | no | no | no | no | 1.0 | |||
fileutil::globfile | varies | no | no | |||||||
tclkitpath | 1.0 | no | no | |||||||
ActiveTcl | varies | no | no | no | no | no | no | |||
trsync | 1.0 (8.5.4 ActiveTcl) | no | 1.0 | 1.0 |