#ACTIVETCL 8.5.9 HOW TO#
#ACTIVETCL 8.5.9 INSTALL#

Ultimately it is not so much building software as creatively hacking it. Each one is designed for Linux, with Mac users being an afterthought at best, but usually a nonthought. Each project has a different build system.

#ACTIVETCL 8.5.9 INSTALL#

But you can still install from source and select exactly what versions of software you want to build with.

That's fine though because that would surely break stuff.

OS X won't let you replace system versions, so that option is off the table. You could go the package manager route with MacPorts, Fink, or now Homebrew and just type 'brew.

#ACTIVETCL 8.5.9 HOW TO#

Few people even know how to build anymore.īut if you are going to use this software on a Mac, you have to adopt one of these strategies. In a really old-school way, people used to actually install test builds of newer versions, but in custom locations, just to test. There is a more 'old school' way - you can install the software from source. Sometimes it works, and sometimes the user has to go back and install a newer, or older, version of Ubuntu/Centos etc. something else.' to install software or update a system-provided version. 🙂Īll of these software packages are designed for a Linux world. It seems that with every post, you open a bigger and bigger can-o-worms. So how do I get the IDLE application to shift over to Tk 8.6? I finally looked at the About IDLE dropdown and the little graphics window, to me, to show that IDLE is still using Tk 8.5 rather than 8.6. I puzzled over this for a bit, googled around only to find that others had experienced the same concern, however, no answers had been provided.

> WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.9) in use may be unstable. I saw various warnings regarding issues with the default, already installed Tk 8.5, and followed the link to download and install Tk 8.6.īoth before and after I installed Tk 8.6, I get this warning when I open IDLE: I have been using BBEdit and terminal to learn python, but I want to use IDLE, mostly to the small window size, when working through the python tutorial online. However, the install created a folder in Applications folder, and it contains among other things: So far I have experienced any issues using it from terminal. I just downloaded and installed Python 3.5.

Activetcl 8.5.9