Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] Starting tcltk without Tk

2008-05-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 6, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: Simon Urbanek wrote: It turns out that the behavior of starting just Tcl was actually a bug. Not completely. At least, loading of tcltk was correct when the "bug" was there, but I totally agree that the mechanism used (according to th

Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] Starting tcltk without Tk

2008-05-06 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Simon Urbanek wrote: It turns out that the behavior of starting just Tcl was actually a bug. Not completely. At least, loading of tcltk was correct when the "bug" was there, but I totally agree that the mechanism used (according to the presence or not of the DISPLAY variable is not the best o

Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] Starting tcltk without Tk

2008-05-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:22:03PM -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote: > It turns out that the behavior of starting just Tcl was actually a bug. > Apparently the intention was to attempt to start Tk regardless of the > DISPLAY variable, because some TclTk implementation such as Aqua Tcl/Tk > don't requi

Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] Starting tcltk without Tk

2008-05-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
It turns out that the behavior of starting just Tcl was actually a bug. Apparently the intention was to attempt to start Tk regardless of the DISPLAY variable, because some TclTk implementation such as Aqua Tcl/Tk don't require DISPLAY and thus would not be loaded. Due to a bug (HAVE_AQUA w