ActiveState - ActiveTcl - The industry-standard Tcl distribution.
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ActiveTcl is the industry-standard Tcl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Developers worldwide rely on ActiveTcl's completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActiveTcl business solutions.
ActiveTcl is 100% compatible with the reference distribution of Tcl. Code tested with ActiveTcl will run on any Tcl installation that has the appropriate extensions installed.
Current Releases
ActiveTcl 8.5.4.0 and ActiveTcl 8.4.19.1
ActiveState is committed to making Tcl easy to install and use on all major platforms. This release of ActiveTcl brings you the most stable release of Tcl in binary form. It also includes several of the most popular extensions pre-compiled and ready to use. Beginning with this release, we distribute and install the demos and examples of the various packages.
Highlights in ActiveTcl 8.5
- Speed
- 8.5 now runs 10% faster than 8.4 with bytecode improvements, object caching and reduced memory usage.
- Bignums
- Tcl now supports arbitrary-precision integers, which improves math operations on large integers.
- Safer interps
- Tcl's powerful safe interpreter mechanism now has improved control of time and command limits in slave interpreters.
- clock command
- More robust implementation of command for specifying time, with significant l10n and i18n improvements.
- dict command
- New data structure that allows access to data by value rather than a variable name, which is substantially faster.
- Additional improvements
- Faster list search, new and improved mathematics procedures, anonymous procedures, new ways to package Tcl extensions, Tcl-level custom channel types, file and line location information for each command, and more.
What's included
- Tcl
- Binary of core Tcl distribution
- Expect for Windows
- Cross-platform system administration and test automation
- Extensions
- Popular extensions, pre-compiled
- Easier installation
- Self-extracting archives for all platforms
- Complete online documentation
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Plus the latest stable Tcl core and several extensions, including:
Complete ActiveTcl Package
ActiveTcl 8.5 is currently distributed in a slimmer default install format with fewer packages. It includes the teacup application which allows you to obtain the previous 8.4 packages and even more.
View the complete list of extensions in ActiveTcl 8.5.4.0 and ActiveTcl 8.4.19.1.
ActiveTcl is based on the ActiveTcl 8.5.4.0 and ActiveTcl 8.4.19.1 version of Tcl. New in ActiveTcl 8.5.4.0 and ActiveTcl 8.4.19.1.
