Re: Active Tcl beta version does not uninstall

Francois Vogel wrote:
> I downloaded the ActiveState Tcl beta version, which is advertised on their
> site as being 8.5a3 (and filename is
> ActiveTcl8.5.0.0b3.121397-win32-ix86.exe, note the "b3").
>
> 1.
> After installation, info patchlevel spits:
> 8.5a2
>
> Why?

As noted, the core version and the "ActiveTcl" version are
related, but not meant to be the same.

> 2.
> Uninstall fails at the very beginning. It says it can't find some directory
> (and in that matter it is right), but this directory name is constructed
> from one of my local paths (in which I did not install Tcl) concatenated
> with the correct installation dir of Tcl. However, there is no
> slash/antislash between these two parts, therefore it fails.
> At this point it is a mess to remove that version, because the registry must
> be cleaned by hand and so on. I know, it's a beta.

This is definitely a bug - thanks for reporting it. Note
that our 8.5 release is pretty out of date. We will be
ensuring a fresh new one in time for the Tcl conference in
October (with lots of new feature goodness!).

-- 
   Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
   http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos