Magically-disappearing tclsh8.5 (was: any good audio/video editing apps in macports?)

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Feb 24, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had to re-install it, because it magically uninstalled itself, during,
> I suspect, the upgrade to the latest macports.

You mentioned that you upgraded to a new MacPorts base recently. Unless you installed it from source, the install process automatically performed a "port selfupdate", which would have updated your ports tree to tcl @8.6.0. The next time you ran "port upgrade outdated" or something similar, MacPorts would have deactivated tcl @8.5.13 (or whatever your old version was) and installed tcl @8.6.0.

So, unless you at no point ran a "port upgrade", nothing magical is happening; this is intended behavior.

> It did not, however, remove wish8.5.  I started to wonder how wish8.5
> could run without tclsh8.5, but then remembered that PERL can use Tk,
> too (and maybe other scripting languages, e.g., python, etc., but
> I don't know about whether those do or not....I don't use python, PERL,
> etc....just Tcl/Tk ... and, of course, the old standard stuff like
> sh/zsh scripts, awk/nawk, and so on, that have always been powerful
> tools).

Is wish8.5 part of tk? What version of the tk port do you have activated?

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