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Identifying the right TCL distribution for my OS version
The current Tcl distribution is labelled as supporting "# Windows XP, 2000 or Vista". Older versions of Windows are noticeably not listed.
Short of actually downloading and installing every one of the old Tcl distributions, how can we tell which of the older distributions support which older versions of Windows, e.g., Windows 98?
I ask, because I have an older notebook computer which is just fine for tinkering around with. I'd like to use it for getting familiar with Tcl. But after much digging around on the ActiveState site, I still have no idea which ActiveState distributions I can (successfully) install and run on it.
(Distributions appear to be listed by version number alone, with no indication of which OSs are supported by each version.)
Have I been looking for OS support information in the wrong places? Am I missing something?
-Phil
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Windows 98 is an officially end-of-lifed system, which is why we don't support or test on it anymore. You should find that the latest ActiveTcl releases do work on Win98 still, but it is a matter of time before they don't. We recently found and fixed an installer issue for Windows 98 (the updated release will be available with 8.5.1.0 in a day or two), but the core still does work. However, it is the Tcl core team's official stance that 8.4 was the last version to officially support Win9x systems. This frees them to use APIs that are only available in Windows NT-based systems.