[Announce] TclKit 8.4-37

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

The June release of TclKit is out, based on the latest CVS snapshots of
all included components: Tcl/Tk 8.4a5 (solid, ignore the "a5"), Metakit
2.4.7, IncrTcl 3.3, and TclVfs 1.0.

The goal for tclkit is to stabilize, there will be less and less changes
to it from now on - other than tracking stable releases of its various
subsystems.

Recent changes listed at <http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/newer/CHANGES> are:
  - fix: clean up shared libs from /tmp after load/use
  - removed old http 1.0 package (2.x has been around for ages)
  - tweaks to streamline builds a bit more

There seems to be one regression in this latest build: the Unicode
encoding system is not being set up properly on all Unix'es (win32 and
macosx/darwin encodings are set ok, macosx is just a standard Unix
nowadays, go figure...).

The encoding issue can be verified as follows: if "encoding system"
returns "identity", then it has not been initialized, it usually will be
"iso8859-1".  Any help with this would be deeply appreciated - I've been
struggling with Unicode encoding setup in Tcl for *ages* :(

Note that you might not see any encoding problems at all if you also have
Tcl installed in some standard place on your system.

For pointers to source and lots of binaries, see the TclKit home page:
    <http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/>

For a recent "classic" MacOS (7.5.5 - 9.2) build, see:
    <http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/#tclkit>
It has no incrtcl yet, but apart from that it is complete and - being a
"fat" binary app - it runs on 68K as well as PPC platforms.

It's going to be hard for me to keep up with rebuilds on an ongoing
basis, even though it's all more or less streamlined, based on a "genkit"
scripts (see the homepage).  If you have access to other platforms, or
are willing to rebuild the latest for your system, you could help out a
lot: do the "genkit shuffle", then send me your resulting "install/" and
"out/" directories, and I will finish the job, build a distribution, and
include it in current set on the web (basically it's a matter of
appending the VFS runtime data).

Enjoy,
-jcw