Multi-platform

tkchat starkit Current tkchat starkit for any system
785 KB, multi-platform starkit

tkchat zipkit Current tkchat zipkit for any system
857 KB, multi-platform starkit

Windows

tkchat-win32-ix86 Current tkchat for 32 bit Windows
3 MB, standalone executable

tkchat-win32-amd64 Current tkchat for 64 bit Windows (AMD64)
5 MB, standalone executable

Linux

tkchat starpack for linux Current tkchat for Linux on x86 and x64
3.0 MB, standalone executable, gzip compressed Note: this now includes an experimental Qt based theme

MacOS X

tkchat dmg file for MacOSX Current tkchat for MacOS X (Universal binary)
5.1 MB, Apple dmg package


Old releases

Filenamedatesize (KB)
tkchat-1.482.kit (gpg)23 Mar 2011769
tkchat-1.477.kit (gpg)14 Dec 2009766
tkchat-1.470.kit (gpg)25 May 20091117
tkchat-1.465.kit (gpg)23 Apr 2009862
tkchat-1.453.kit (gpg)13 Nov 2008751
tkchat-1.450.kit (gpg)22 Oct 2008751
tkchat-1.449.kit (gpg)17 Oct 2008750
tkchat-1.446.kit (gpg)20 Aug 2008747
tkchat-1.444.kit (gpg)09 Aug 2008744
tkchat-1.443.kit (gpg)09 Aug 2008744
tkchat-1.438.kit (gpg)30 Jul 2008741
tkchat-1.434.kit (gpg)24 Jul 2008737
tkchat-1.432.kit (gpg)23 May 2008736
tkchat-1.424.kit (gpg)21 Apr 2008735
tkchat-1.422.kit (gpg)02 Apr 2008736
tkchat-1.421.kit (gpg)09 Feb 2008703
tkchat-1.418.kit (gpg)06 Feb 2008702
tkchat-1.416.kit (gpg)31 Jan 2008723
tkchat-1.415.kit (gpg)26 Jan 2008723
tkchat-1.413.kit (gpg)25 Dec 2007722
tkchat-1.411.kit (gpg)12 Oct 2007635
tkchat-1.410.kit (gpg)09 Oct 2007635
tkchat-1.404.kit (gpg)28 Sep 2007641
tkchat-1.403.kit (gpg)26 Sep 2007640
tkchat-1.402.kit (gpg)26 Sep 2007639
tkchat-1.400.kit (gpg)19 Sep 2007593
tkchat-1.398.kit (gpg)15 Sep 2007593
tkchat-1.390.kit (gpg)12 Sep 2007608
tkchat-1.388.kit (gpg)10 Sep 2007607
tkchat-1.386.kit (gpg)03 Sep 2007592
tkchat-1.384.kit (gpg)28 Aug 2007580
tkchat-1.383.kit (gpg)25 Aug 2007576
tkchat-1.381.kit (gpg)28 Apr 2007653
tkchat-1.374.kit (gpg)01 Apr 2007539
tkchat-1.372.kit (gpg)31 Mar 2007538
tkchat-1.368.kit (gpg)18 Mar 2007476
tkchat-1.367.kit (gpg)18 Mar 2007476
tkchat-1.366.kit (gpg)18 Mar 2007476
tkchat-1.364.kit (gpg)01 Mar 2007461
tkchat-1.361.kit (gpg)08 Feb 2007462
tkchat-1.360.kit (gpg)07 Feb 2007461
tkchat-1.358.kit (gpg)23 Jan 2007542
tkchat-1.352.kit (gpg)19 Oct 2006424
tkchat-1.349.kit (gpg)21 Sep 2006440
tkchat-1.346.kit (gpg)15 Sep 2006422
tkchat-1.339.kit (gpg)23 Jun 2006392
tkchat-1.337.kit (gpg)31 May 2006392
tkchat-1.318.kit (gpg)27 Nov 2005390
tkchat-1.313.kit (gpg)19 Oct 2005389
tkchat-1.312.kit (gpg)19 Oct 2005388
tkchat-1.311.kit (gpg)18 Oct 2005388
tkchat-1.310.kit (gpg)18 Oct 2005388
tkchat-1.296.kit (gpg)15 Jun 2005386
tkchat-1.281.kit (gpg)25 Apr 2005386
tkchat-1.275.kit13 Apr 2005385
tkchat-1.269.kit22 Mar 2005291
tkchat-1.265.kit04 Mar 2005267
tkchat-1.263.kit16 Feb 2005267

What is a starkit?

Starkit files are Tcl mountable virtual filesystems. They permit application developers to wrap up a working directory tree containing application files and extension packages into a single distributable file. When the application is run using a tclkit executable the end user can be certain that the application is using only the versions of the packages that the author distributed as tclkit does not look for packages outside the virtual filesystem.


What is a zipkit?

Starkit files can be based upon more than a single type of container. Normally a Metakit database is used for the virtual filesystem but it is possible to use a simple zip archive of the application source tree. To demonstrate this we provide a tkchat zipkit. This can use used in the same way that a normal starkit is used - that is it may be run using a standard tclkit executable.