Here are starter ports for Tcl and Tk 8.5. Highlights of Tcl 8.5
* Speed: 8.5 now runs 10% faster than 8.4 with bytecode
improvements, object caching and reduced memory usage.
* Bignums: Tcl now supports arbitrary-precision integers,
which improves math operations on large integers.
* Safer interps: Tcl's powerful safe interpreter mechanism
now has improved control of time and command limits in
slave interpreters.
* clock command: More robust implementation of command for
specifying time, with significant l10n and i18n
improvements.
* dict command: New data structure that allows access to
data by value rather than a variable name, which is
substantially faster.
* Additional improvements: Faster list search, new and
improved mathematics procedures, anonymous procedures, new
ways to package Tcl extensions, Tcl-level custom channel
types, file and line location information for each
command, and more.
Highlights of Tk 8.5
* New modern theming engine: New and complementary widgets
that make use of platform-specific theming on Mac OS X and
Windows to better fit in with those environments, and
feature an improved look and feel under X11. (screenshots)
* New widgets: Part of the themed widget set, Tk now has
core notebook, combobox, treeview and progressbar widgets.
* text widget: Smooth scrolling, widget peering, and
improved procedures for counting and replacing text.
* Font rendering: Now uses anti-aliased text under X11, and
a more modern text engine (ATSUI) on Mac OS X.
* Additional improvements: Window transparency, new
fullscreen option for windows, enhancements to specific
widgets and window layout, and more.
Expect only 2 regress failures in Tcl: fCmd.test and stack.test.
the fCmd failure is an OpenBSD issue that will be fixed soon;
the stack test failure is acceptable to the Tcl developers, see
http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Tcl/comp.lang.tcl/2006-09/msg00773.html
for more info.
Expect many failures in the Tk regress test, but that's not much
different than in 8.4, and it's still kind of fun to watch.
also
$ sh /usr/local/lib/tk8.5/demos/widget
will give you an overview of Tk usage and new features.
Testing, especially on non-i386 would be appreciated. Thanks!
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