Re: [tkined] Scotty 2.1.10 wil Tcl 8.2

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:13:13 +0100

>>>>> Gadre, Abhay writes:

Gadre> Are there any known issues regarding using scotty 2.1.10 with
Gadre> Tcl 8.2? The FAQ says that scotty been known to work with Tcl
Gadre> 8.0. Tcl 8.2 (actually anything after Tcl 8.1) adds
Gadre> multi-threading and Unicode strings to Tcl/Tk. If it matters, I
Gadre> am using Solaris 2.6 as my OS.

The current scotty code is not thread-safe. The upcoming snapshot,
which will be based on Tcl 8.2, has lots of mutexes inside and it will
be to some degree Tcl thread-safe.

(Claiming that something is really thread-safe is hard since it is not
easy to find and test the not so obvious places where you have to throw
in mutexes. Hence I prefer a more fuzzy statement.)

/js

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