NOTE: One needs to be particularly careful to consider all the ramifications when using any binary distribution, including factors such as the license of the distribution itself.An older Wiki page that covers much the same territory as this one is Binary Distributions.KJN: I have moved the few paragraphs on binaries to Binary Distributions to avoid duplication. Since many of those binary distributions are open-source, they will be of interest to those looking for Tcl/Tk sources.
Sources for Tcl/Tk
- Tcl [1] and Tktoolkit [2] projects on Sourceforge
- cvs from Sourceforge
- cvs snapshots at ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/nightly-cvs/
- Where to find old Tcl source distributions
- GIT mirror [3]
- Q. I hope someone will comment here on what should be expected at SourceForge [4].
- A. Basically one should expect to find the cvs being used for current Tcl source code development. Check the SourceForge wiki page for more details.
People interested in the current sources of packages hosted on sourceforge and other CVS's can go to the following places providing nightly snapshots:
- AK: http://www.purl.org/net/akupries/soft/cvs-snapshots/
- Tcl Developer XChange: ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/nightly-cvs/
- George Petasis: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~petasis/Tcl/index.html
If you want something even more recent than that, you can go directly to the SourceForge CVS:
Sources for commonly used extensions
- Tcllib can be found at [5]
- Links to various other extensions can be found in the Category Package
- The Gutter catalog has information about and links to many extensions
Yet another depot is the old Scriptics FTP library [6] (empty 2008-01-09)
Where to find old Tcl source distributions
- Many years ago, CL tried to maintain a page [7] on this topic. He's slowly moving the information there to this page. http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.unix.misc/unix_binaries.html may also be relevant.
Getting Tcl/Tk