On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > >> ________________________________ > >> From: michael noble <[email protected]> > >> To: PD send List <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:53 AM > >> Subject: [PD] Tcl/Tk 8.6.0 > >> > >> > >> Archlinux has bumped Tcl/Tk to the recently released 8.6.0 version. > >> > >> > >> I'm in no hurry to upgrade, but was wondering if the new version is > likely to cause problems for Pd in the same way as the move from 8.4.0 to > 8.5.0? > > > > > > There's really no way to tell without trying it out. 8.6 is _extremely_ > new, though, so I wouldn't > > be surprised if there are some bugs here and there. > > Looks like it has png support, and some new commands for moving canvas > items, as well as > > native oo support. There's also a "try" command that looks pretty nice. > > > > List of changes: > > http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html > > Tcl/Tk 8.6 has been in the works for years, so I wouldn't say its entirely > new. But yes, a lot has changed since 8.5, which was released 5 years ago. > I plan to switch all the Pd-extended builds to it once 0.43.4 is out. So > its good to hear that so far, its working fine :) > > Tcl/Tk 8.6 is also already in Ubuntu/raring and Debian/sid. > > .hc Thanks all for the replies. I guess it's a case of testing the waters, but from the looks of things there are no major problems as of yet.
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