Version 17 of Where to find old Tcl source distributions

Updated 2009-08-19 16:21:47 by AK

Andreas Kupries and Jeff Hobbs keep old source code distributions of Tcl on the Tcl SourceForge Release Area .

ActiveState has pages for versions

  • 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 [L1 ]
  • 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 [L2 ]
  • 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 [L3 ]

KJN I have retrieved a number of old versions of Tcl 6.x and matching versions of Tk by FTP from old mirrors. Tarball is at [L4 ] (7.0Mb). The tarball contains these versions not available from SourceForge: Tcl 6.1 and 6.5; Tk 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0; and assorted patches. Also alleged DOS ports for Tcl 6.2 and 6.7.

AK: Anybody who has versions of Tcl not found in Tcl's SourceForge release area [we need a hyperlink to a page which explains the SF releases], please notify either me or Jeff Hobbs of this fact, as well as where to find them, to allow us to get them for the SF collection. I now have copied KJN's tarball and hope to have time to put them up soon.


The old Sprite distributions should have a very early Tcl. (Tcl and Tk were originally available by FTP from the hosts sprite.berkeley.edu and barkley.berkeley.edu; these hosts have long been disconnected. John Ousterhout's Sprite network operating system project [L5 ] ended several years ago.)

The oldest version at SourceForge is Tcl 2.1.


See also