Non-commercial product by ActiveState. A Batteries Included effort to bring together in one binary distribution a variety of Tcl extensions. Binaries are available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and Solaris SPARC and IX-86 .
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
For instance, with the recent 8.4.14.x release, you get the Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 core, plus the following extensions:
as well as additional tools such as
They now offer the freely downloadable ActiveTcl as well as enterprise support (called "ActiveTcl Enterprise Edition" [L1 ]), 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.
ActiveTcl sometimes uses sources (along with other extensions) directly from the CVS repository, which may not correspond to an exact "official" release.
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/Other products offered by ActiveState are
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.
If the above doesn't sound familar, perhaps you are looking for ActiveTcl (Frankinet)
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 [L3 ]
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