On May 3, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > Scid for PC relies on Tcl /Tk 8.4. I only ported Scid for Pocket PC > to Tcl/Tk 8.5, but on Linux, Tcl/Tk 8.5 is not wide spread enough. > > So the question is : does Scid binaries run out of the box with Tcl/ > Tk 8.5 ? I don't know, I have never tried but I have doubts on it > simply because the lib stubs will check versions and should refuse > to work (even if a simple hexedit subst 8.4 to 8.5 should do the > trick, yes I already did stuff like that ;-) ). > > So if on Mac Os, Tcl Tk 8.5 is there, to port Scid is easy to do and > requires a few simple changes to the Makefile (for example setting > TCL_VERSION = 8.5). You don't have to change anything in Scid's code. > Ah, it's nothing so bad. Current versions of OS X ship with 8.4 and it runs fine. I just wanted to use a couple file operations that were not introduced until 8.4. I was afraid this might break folks on linux or window but since you say they should be on 8.4+ also, this should not be an issue.
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