Tk Source Code

The change which I committed allows tclsh to find the pkgIndex.tcl files
for all installed versions of Tk.  But it does not work to allow all versions
of tclsh to load Tk.  It was working fine for me, but I forgot that I was
testing with a modified tcl.h file.

With the current tcl.h file for Tcl 9.0, you get this:

% tclsh9.0 
% package require Tk
interpreter uses an incompatible stubs mechanism

That error is being generated by Tcl_Init_Stubs and causes the package
require command to fail, without loading Tk, because Tcl_Init_Stubs has
been modified in tcl.h to force an exact version match for Tk 9.0b3.
The failure occurs when tclsh9.0 reads the pkgIndex.tcl file for Tk 8.6.

I don't understand why this exact match is being required.  But whatever
the reason, it should still be possible for tclsh9.0 to execute a
pkgIndex.tcl script for an incompatible version of Tk without failing
when a compatible version of Tk is, in fact, available.  If one version
of Tk is incompatible it should move on to the next one and not fail
until it has checked that all versions are incompatible.

I think this is a bug.  But a different bug.  The fact that it might go
away when there is a final release of Tcl / Tk 9.0 does not mean that
it is correct.