Where to find old Tcl source distributions

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Information about the availability of old source-code distributions of Tcl

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Tcl SourceForge Release Area: versions back to 3.3. Maintained by Andreas Kupries and Jeff Hobbs
ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl: versions back to 7.4
tcl6all.tar: KJN I have retrieved a number of old versions of Tcl 6.x and matching versions of Tk by FTP from old mirrors. The tarball (7.0Mb) contains these versions not available from SourceForge: Tcl 6.1 and 6.5; Tk 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0; and assorted patches. Also alleged DOS ports for Tcl 6.2 and 6.7.
cvs snapshots: by AK, snapshots of Tcl and various packages, dating back to 2001
George Petasis: had some old versions mirrored at http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~petasis/Tcl/index.html
Binaries for Tcl/Tk of interest to Cameron Laird: by CL, contains version 4.1b3 for Windows and Mac, and version 7.4 for Mac. http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.unix.misc/unix_binaries.html may also be relevant

AK: Anybody who has versions of Tcl not found in Tcl's SourceForge release area [we need a hyperlink to a page which explains the SF releases], please notify either me or Jeff Hobbs of this fact, as well as where to find them, to allow us to get them for the SF collection. I now have copied KJN's tarball and hope to have time to put them up soon.

The old Sprite distributions should have a very early Tcl. (Tcl and Tk were originally available by FTP from the hosts sprite.berkeley.edu and barkley.berkeley.edu; these hosts have long been disconnected. John Ousterhout's Sprite network operating system project ended several years ago.)

The oldest version at SourceForge is Tcl 2.1.

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