<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a problem with the instructions for using Active TCL with Python for the Mac. <div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr." <<a href="mailto:centaur@dresan.com">centaur@dresan.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Broken links on <a href="http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11">http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11</a></b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">19 December 2012 22:08:02 GMT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:webmaster@python.org">webmaster@python.org</a><br></span></div><br>Hey gang,<div><br></div><div>The Python install instructions for Tck/TK appear to be out of date:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11">http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#activetcl-8-5-11</a></div>
<div>As of this writing, there are two known serious problems with the most recent ActivelTcl 8.5 releases for Mac OS X, 8.5.12 and 8.5.12.1. (See Issues #15574 and #15853 for more information.) Until these issues are resolved, use the previous release of ActiveTcl, 8.5.11.1, which is available for download here. This is an Aqua Cocoa Tk.</div>
</blockquote></div><div><div><br></div><div>But the "download here" link is borken:</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><a href="http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/">http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/</a></div>
</div><div><div>Not Found</div><div>The requested URL /ActiveTcl/releases/<a href="http://8.5.11.1/">8.5.11.1/</a> was not found on this server.</div><div>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at <a href="http://downloads.activestate.com/">downloads.activestate.com</a> Port 80</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As it so turns out, this is on purpose on ActiveState's part:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads">http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads</a></div>
<div><div>Looking for access to older versions of ActiveTcl?</div><div>Community Edition offers access to the newest versions of ActiveTcl.</div><div>Access to older versions is available in Business Edition and Enterprise Edition.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Business edition is a thousand bucks a pop ( <a href="http://www.activestate.com/business-edition">http://www.activestate.com/business-edition</a> ) so I has a bit of a sad - I was just trying to run a quick experiment and have dived down a rabbit hole. It appears also that ActiveTcl has gone beyond the buggy edition listed on the <a href="http://Python.org">Python.org</a> tcltk page, so I'm going to give that a try.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Anthony</div><div>-- </div><div>Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. ~ Renaissance Engineer ~ 408 221 7894<br><a href="mailto:centaur@dresan.com">centaur@dresan.com</a> ~ <a href="http://www.fanufiku.com/">www.fanufiku.com</a> ~ <a href="http://www.dakotafrost.com/">www.dakotafrost.com</a>
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