Tcl "registry" package missing after Cygwin update.

Tcl "registry" package missing after Cygwin update.

[Tim Auckland]

After updating to the latest Cygwin, our test scripts are failing because the "registry" package is missing from tclsh:

$ tclsh
% package require registry
can't find package registry
% 

This probably coincides with the upgrade from tcl8.4 to tcl8.5 reported in the announcement below.

I'm using tcl package version 8.5.11-1

Is there a separate Cygwin package needed for the registry package, or are there other plans to fix this?

Tim

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Tcl/Tk 8.5.11
. From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
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. Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:07:23 -0600
. Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Tcl/Tk 8.5.11
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Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.5.11 with the following important changes:

* Tcl now uses *NIX APIs and will behave like other Cygwin programs with
regards to filename paths, etc.

* Tk (tcl-tk) now uses X11 instead of GDI.  This means the following
Tk-based applications now require an X server at runtime:

- gitk and git-gui
- WordNet
- wordview (from the catdoc package)
- idle
- Anything using python's tkinter or ruby's tcltk modules.

* The following Tcl extensions are now packaged separately:

- tcl-itcl
- tcl-itk
- tcl-iwidgets
- tcl-tix
- tcl-tk

* Most packages which used tcltk have been rebuilt and will pull in
whichever tcl packages they now require.

* Any Tcl extensions or applications which you have installed yourself
will need to be rebuilt.

Please report any issues encountered with this upgrade to the Cygwin
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Yaakov
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Re: Tcl "registry" package missing after Cygwin update.

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !

On 2012-03-20 15:15, Tim Auckland wrote:
> After updating to the latest Cygwin, our test scripts are failing because the "registry" package is missing from tclsh:
>
> This probably coincides with the upgrade from tcl8.4 to tcl8.5 reported in the announcement below.

Correct.  As documented in the corresponding manpage (`man n registry'), 
"[t]his  command  is  only  supported  on the Windows platform", which 
(wrt Tcl/Tk) Cygwin is no longer:

$ echo 'puts $::tcl_platform(platform)' | tclsh
unix


Yaakov

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