OpenSolaris and Tcl

Just installed OpenSolaris Build 75 and booted it up with xVM (Xen). I tried Brandz before with CentOS 3 with OpenSolaris Build 59, that was quite some time ago. However, I was not very pleased with Brandz running an old Linux kernel 2.4.

Anyway, I need to dig into Xen and tried to understand all the ins and outs. Stay tune, for sure I will blog about my findings.

One of the findings is that Tcl is in the main stream. Also, Tcl binding for PostgreSQL is fully integrated too.

In Solaris 10, it used to be in /usr/sfw (Sunfreeware) directory and is running a pretty old version Tcl 8.3.3.

# pkginfo | grep -i tcl
system      SUNWTcl                          Tcl - Tool Command Language
system      SUNWTk                           Tk - TCL GUI Toolkit
system      SUNWpostgr-82-pl                 PostgreSQL 8.2 additional Perl, Python & TCL server procedural languages
system      SUNWpostgr-82-tcl                Tcl binding library for PostgreSQL 8.2
system      SUNWpostgr-tcl                   A Tcl client library for PostgreSQL

# pkginfo -l SUNWTcl
   PKGINST:  SUNWTcl
      NAME:  Tcl - Tool Command Language
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  i386
   VERSION:  11.11.0,REV=2007.10.02.00.53
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC:  Tcl - Tool Command Language (8.4.14)
    PSTAMP:  sfwnv-x20071002010749
  INSTDATE:  Oct 26 2007 13:40
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:      736 installed pathnames
                   9 shared pathnames
                  17 directories
                   3 executables
               10154 blocks used (approx)