There's a problem with the instructions for using Active TCL with Python for the Mac.
Michael Begin forwarded message: > From: "Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr." <cent...@dresan.com> > Subject: Broken links on > http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11 > Date: 19 December 2012 22:08:02 GMT > To: webmas...@python.org > > Hey gang, > > The Python install instructions for Tck/TK appear to be out of date: > > http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11 > As of this writing, there are two known serious problems with the most recent > ActivelTcl 8.5 releases for Mac OS X, 8.5.12 and 8.5.12.1. (See Issues #15574 > and #15853 for more information.) Until these issues are resolved, use the > previous release of ActiveTcl, 8.5.11.1, which is available for download > here. This is an Aqua Cocoa Tk. > > But the "download here" link is borken: > > http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/ > Not Found > The requested URL /ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/ was not found on this server. > Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at downloads.activestate.com Port 80 > > As it so turns out, this is on purpose on ActiveState's part: > > http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads > Looking for access to older versions of ActiveTcl? > Community Edition offers access to the newest versions of ActiveTcl. > Access to older versions is available in Business Edition and Enterprise > Edition. > > Business edition is a thousand bucks a pop ( > http://www.activestate.com/business-edition ) so I has a bit of a sad - I was > just trying to run a quick experiment and have dived down a rabbit hole. It > appears also that ActiveTcl has gone beyond the buggy edition listed on the > Python.org tcltk page, so I'm going to give that a try. > > -Anthony > -- > Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. ~ Renaissance Engineer ~ 408 221 7894 > cent...@dresan.com ~ www.fanufiku.com ~ www.dakotafrost.com -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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