Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): Re: TIP #143 (Approved): Make Tcl 8.5 a platform requirement for OpenACS 5.6+

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6: Re: TIP #143 (Approved): Make Tcl 8.5 a platform requirement for OpenACS 5.6+ (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 11/29/10 08:36 AM
While Tcl 8.4.* crashes (kills the aolserver) when the C-stack size (parameter stacksize in the config file) is too small, Tcl 8.5 gives a Tcl runtime exception "out of stack space". Therefore, Tcl 8.5 adds stability to the server ... one more reason to use Tcl 8.5 instead of 8.4.