Re: ActiveState releases ActiveTcl 8.4.16 and ActiveTcl8.5.0 Beta 9

On Sep 28, 4:51 am, suchenwi <richard.suchenwirth-
bauersa...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28 Sep., 05:44, "palm...@xxxxxxxxx" <palm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is it possible for ActiveState 8.4 and 8.5b0 to co-exist on the same
system (Windows XP)?

Yes. I installed 8.5b1 yesterday in D:/Tcl85, while my regular 8.4 is
in D:/Tcl.
The only thing to consider is that 8.5 doesn't come with the many libs
8.4 does, so one might copy needed extensions (like Img, tdom) from
the 8.4 tree to the 8.5 tree.

I could be wrong about this, but it's been my impression that
ActiveState intended for the two distributions to live in the same
directory. As far as I can tell, someone has gone to great lengths to
ensure that all version-specific files have version-specific names so
that nothing vital gets overwritten. The upside is that you only need
one copy of the extensions and other shared files. I'm no "power
user", but I've had the two versions living in the same directory for
well over a year with no problems.

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