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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 09:55:36 CDT

Hi,
  We usually don't switch to new versions of Tcl until the Tcl people mark
the new version as "stable". At present, they distribute the 8.4.x series
as the "stable" version, and 8.5.x series is still referred to as an "alpha"
or test version. I do test VMD with the new versions, as they are often
needed when adding support for a new platform. To give you an idea, in the
last few weeks I've been submitting bug reports to help the Tcl developers
fix various problems with the current Tcl 8.5.x build scripts on Windows...
It's always best to ship VMD based on the stable version :)

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:43:21AM +0200, andrea spitaleri wrote:
> Hi John,
> thanks. I worked out for now without dict.
> However, will the next stable release of vmd compiled against tcl 8.5.x?
>
> Regards
>
> Andrea
>
> John Stone wrote:
> >Andrea,
> > The 'dict' command appears to be a feature of Tcl 8.5.x, the current
> >versions of VMD are compiled with Tcl 8.4.x. If you wish to use Tcl 8.5,
> >you can compile VMD from source and link against the Tcl 8.5 library.
> >Let me know if you need help with this.
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:44:50PM +0200, andrea spitaleri wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>why in tk-console "dict" command is not recognized?
> >>I need in my script to create a dictionary
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>
> >>Andrea
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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