Re: Updates to the IDLE Dev Guide
Kevin Walzer <[email protected]>
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On 5/9/15 1:56 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Kevin, it looks like tcl.tk only distributes 8.5 and 8.6. How long > has it been since 8.4 was distributed? I am wondering how long > tkinter should keep code for pre 8.5. 8.4 was EOL'ed a year or two ago. The last release was (I think) 8.4.20. > > Also, does 8.6.4 have any new features versus 8.6.0, or just bug > fixes, as with Python? In terms of language design, no new features (an object system and coroutines were major features with 8.6.0 in Tcl). The Windows and X11 versions of Tk have had minor updates / bug fixes only, I believe. Because it has never been very stable, the Mac port of Tk has remained under heavy development even with minor point releases (Marc Culler, developer of the Python scientific visualizer SnapPy, has contributed many patches, and I have also done a lot of work). It remains based on Cocoa, but a lot of under-the-hood engineering has taken place to firm up the event loop and simplify drawing of widgets with a lower-level API. These changes will be present in 8.6.5, which I think will be the first truly stable version of Tk since it was ported to Cocoa. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com