A Starpack is a special versions of a Starkit, which combines a Starkit with a TclKit runtime into a single file.
Starpacks are standalone executables which run out of the box, making them even easier to distribute and use than Starkits. This convenience does introduce a number of trade-offs:
Note that Starpacks use the same packaging mechanism as Starkits, their content can be listed and extracted with the SDX utility. The main difference is that the "header" is a large executable file, and that the files stored inside include all the standard Tcl/Tk runtime support files.
-jcw