Tcl/Tk alpha channel bug on OSX Mavericks is fixeded, but how/when can I use the fix?

[Peter Tomcsanyi]

"Kevin Walzer" <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote in message 
news:lrmc0r$suj$1 at dont-email.me...
> New releases of Tcl/Tk 8.5 and 8.6 are due out soon; right now they are 
> undergoing final testing as betas/release candidates.

Thanks for the promising news.
Where should I look for the announcement that there is something new?
Is this the correct place?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/

But will be the 8.5. branch updated, too?
I need 8.5 because CPython on Mac does not yet use 8.6...
I cannot see there 8.5.15.1 (at least that is how ActiveTcl is numbered) 
which solved some oter Mavericks issues in October 2013 (all 8.5. files are 
older than October 2013)...
So will be there a 8.5.16?

> you can download the source tarballs for Tcl and Tk when they are 
> released, untar them to a specific directory, cd to the directory, and run 
> these commands:
>
> make -C $insert_tcl_dirname_here/macosx
> make -C $insert_tk_dirname_here/macosx
>
> and then
>
> sudo make -C $insert_tcl_dirname_here/macosx install
> sudo make -C $insert_tk_dirname_here/macosx install

I have some command line skills and I have the command line developer tools 
installed (is that enough?), but I am not sure if I understand which 
directory's name is $insert_tcl_dirname_here (I suppose that the $ sign 
belongs to the name of the "variable", am I right?). Is it the directory 
where I unterd tcl (and which is under the directory where i cd-ed to)?

> This will install the updated version of Tcl and Tk in 
> /Library/Frameworks, and Python should pick them up.

Well, should...
I will try. But when I followed a similar procedure of installing the tkpng 
package then after "sudo make install" it seemed to be ok, but it was 
apparently added to other version of Tk than CPython is using...
Can somebody else confirm or disconfirm that the above procedure will 
install the new Tcl/Tk to that place where CPython (that is already 
installed) will pick it from? Or do I need to reinstall CPython after this? 
Or...?

Thanks

Peter Tomcsanyi