Roman Haefeli wrote:

Hi all

When configuring pd-gui-rewrite, I don't see an option to set a certain version of tcl/tk. The result seems to work fine with both, 8.4 and 8.5. It seems, that it 'prefers' 8.4 over 8.5, if both are installed.

Is there a way to force a certain version? And for the auto-detect mechanism, wouldn't it make more sense to try the higher version before the lower version? I can only use 8.5, if I remove 8.4, which I'd like to keep for Pd-vanilla 0.42-5.

hmm, afaict, there is no action at all to use a specific version of tcl/tk. instead, the system defaults are used. so if the default tcl/tk interpreter on your system is wish8.5, that one will be used.

on my debian (testing/unstable) system, the default tcl/tk interpreter is controlled via alternatives:

<snip> $ update-alternatives --display wish wish - auto mode link currently points to /usr/bin/wish-default /usr/bin/wish-default - priority 10000 slave wish.1: /usr/share/man/man1/wish-default.1.gz /usr/bin/wish8.3 - priority 831 slave wish.1: /usr/share/man/man1/wish8.3.1.gz /usr/bin/wish8.4 - priority 841 slave wish.1: /usr/share/man/man1/wish8.4.1.gz /usr/bin/wish8.5 - priority 840 slave wish.1: /usr/share/man/man1/wish8.5.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/wish-default. </snip>

the "wish-default" comes from a package "tk" which is really 8.4.16, so my default tcl/tk is 8.4

you can change that via $ update-alternative --config wish

i wouldn't do anything more than thatn, as this will probably create more confusion than it solves.

fgmasdr IOhannes