TclTk Aqua Batteries-Included is a freely available Batteries Included binary distribution of the MacOS X native Tcl/Tk and fifty popular extensions. It is a superset of ActiveTcl (on other platforms). TclTkAquaBI is maintained by Daniel Steffen.
About it, Steve Landers remarked, "Daniel's work on the Mac 'Batteries Included' is particularly noteworthy .... it makes it trivially easy for non-Mac people to move their Tcl/Tk scripts to that platform ..."
Smaller distributions of MacOS X Tcl/Tk only, and of a self-contained Wish application (similar to TclKit), are also available.
The distributions are downloadable as compressed disk images from the file area [L1 ] of the Tcl/Tk Aqua sourceforge site.
Note that the latest downloads require MacOS X 10.3 (Panther); MacOS X 10.2 and earlier are no longer supported.
Visit http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/ for more details and direct download links.
See below for a list of packages included with the latest TclTkAquaBI 8.4.7.0 release.
Most packages are built from the HEAD (resp. tip of core-8-4-branch) of their CVS repositories as of 2004-07-30 00:00:00 GMT (or from the latest tarballs where there is no CVS access), see [L2 ] for details; with some patches [L3 ] applied.
The distributions use the standard Apple Installer, allowing users to install all or only some of the packages included. The BI installer is also easily adapted to include only a subset of the bundled packages for building customized distributions.
The tools used to build the distribution (including the installer packages & disk images) are available [L4 ], including archives of the exact (unpatched) sources [L5 ] used to build the distribution.
Also at that location are individual tarballs of the binaries [L6 ] and installer packages [L7 ] contained in the distribution; additionally, this contains binaries of Tcl [L8 ] & Tk/X11 [L9 ] built in the standard unix style into /usr/local.
Note the presence of both Tclkit and the new Wishkit, which allows the running of starkits under either Tk/X11 or Tk/Aqua.
The TclTkAqua BI distribution is available free of charge for any use permitted under the open-source BSD License [L10 ], including use in commercial products. However, given that the ongoing maintenance and improvement of the distribution requires a significant amount of time, donations [L11 ] supporting the future development of TclTkAquaBI are certainly greatly appreciated.
Packages included with the TclTk Aqua BI 8.4.7.0 distribution:
[ Daniel Steffen 3/Aug/04 ]