Non-commercial product by [ActiveState].
A [Batteries Included] effort to bring together in one binary distribution a variety of Tcl extensions.

Anyone have a table comparing what versions of what packages have been in each activetcl
release? 

There is another ActiveTcl around, this one can be found at [ActiveTcl (Frankinet)] instead.

Details about the product appear at
   * http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
   * http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Tcl/ 
   * http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActiveTcl/8.4/at.pkg_index.html

For instance, with the recent 8.4.14.x release, you get the Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 core,
plus the following extensions:

   * [Img] 1.3
   * [Memchan] 2.2.1
   * [Metakit]/Mk4tcl 2.4.9.5
   * [Oratcl] 4.3
   * [SQLite] 3.3.8
   * [TCOM] 3.9 (Windows only)
   * [Tcldom] 2.6
   * [Tclexpat] 2.6
   * [Tclxml] 2.6 (now including expat C library)
   * [Tclxslt] 2.6
   * [Tkhtml] 2.0
   * [Tktable] 2.9
   * [Trf] 2.1
   * [XOTcl] 1.5.3
   * [bwidget] 1.8
   * [dict] 8.5.3
   * [expect] 5.43.0
   * [iwidgets] 4.0.2
   * [snack] 2.2.10
   * [tbcload] 1.4
   * [tcldomxml] 2.6
   * [tcllib] 1.9
   * [tclsoap] 1.6.7
   * [tclx] 8.4
   * [tdom] 0.8.1
   * [Thread] 2.6.5 (Windows, OS X only)
   * [tile] 0.7.8
   * [tk] 8.4.9
   * [tklib] 0.4.1
   * [tktreectrl] 2.1
   * [treectrl] 1.1
   * [vu] widgets 2.3
   * itcl/[incr Tcl] 3.3
   * itk/[incr Tk] 3.3
   * vfs/[TclVFS] 1.3

as well as additional tools such as

   * [TkCon]
   * [Teacup] cliente of the TEApot repository system

They now offer the freely downloadable ActiveTcl as
well as enterprise support
(called "ActiveTcl Enterprise Edition" [http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTclEnteriseEdition/]),
etc.  They have added a section on Tcl mailing lists, with archives for a number of
popular lists at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Tcl/Mail.  
At http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Tcl/Reference/ is a great
online Tcl reference section, with links to papers from the Tcl'2002
US and European conferences as well as other resources.

See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/ for
mailing list subscription information.
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ActiveTcl sometimes uses sources (along with other extensions) directly from the CVS repository, which may not correspond to an exact "official" release.

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 What: ActiveTcl (ActiveState)
 Where: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Tcl/
        http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl
        http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl
 Description: Bundle of Tcl and related software, in binary form
        (aka a "Batteries Included" distribution) - ready for installation.
        Bundles for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows are provided.
        The releases of ActiveTcl include the latest
        stable Tcl core as well as a number of popular extensions.
        See the web site for specific versions in your specific ActiveTcl
        release.
        Version 8.4.13.x is now available.
        Uses the ActiveState community license.  If you intend on writing
        commercial products, be certain to examine the license here carefully.
 Updated: 08/2005
 Contact: http://bugs.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/

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Other products offered by [ActiveState] are

   * [Tcl Dev Kit] - aka Tcl Developer's Kit. Based upon [TclPro], includes a variety of useful developer tools, work with whatever [ActiveTcl] it finds.
   * [Expect for Windows] [http://www.activestate.com/Products/Expect/], an up-to-date port of Expect to Windows for Tcl 8.4.
   * [ActiveTcl Pro Studio], a bundle of [Komodo], [Tcl Dev Kit], [Expect for Windows] and more.
   * ActivePerl
   * ActivePython

[VK] Can anyone comment, why on earth [ActiveTcl] distribution comes with [threads] disabled, but ActivePerl distro has threads enabled, whereas threads in Perl are highly unstable and very resource-eating (see http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=288022). Do I need to re-compile for trying threads? What about ActivePython.

[JH]: Tcl threads are stable, but not all the extensions that ActiveTcl ships are thread-stable (like [expect] and [TclX] in particular).  Until some more work is done on them, we don't want to destabilize their use by shipping a fully threaded ActiveTcl.

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If the above doesn't sound familar, perhaps you are looking for [ActiveTcl (Frankinet)]


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[IL] Is there someplace where someone can retrieve earlier distros of ActiveTcl?

[JH]: Earlier versions of ActiveTcl are available directly from our downloads area.

[MG] found them at on the ActiveState FTP site at [ftp://ftp.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/]
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