Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:26:11 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk (Duncan Barclay) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com Subject: Re: how many tk version do oyu need... Message-ID: <199802221126.MAA04435@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980222103912.dmlb@computer.my.domain> from "Duncan Barclay" at Feb 22, 98 10:38:53 am
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> > in other words, either one first moves all tk80 ports to tk81 (which > > is fine, hopefully the differences should not be too big) or it is ... > But there is a bit of a problem with the compatiblilty of the code Tcl > and C) itself to run under the different version of Tcl. For example > anything using itcl cannot yet run under Tcl8x because itcl doesn't work > under Tcl8 yet. Effectivly you are suggesting that we update the Tcl > package itself to a new version of Tcl on behalf of the original author. right... > Is this wise? may not be wise, but then let's leave each port use the tk version it was released for -- it is less work, less risk of introducing bugs, and no difference for the system since you still end up with the whole spectrum of tk versions in your system Unfortunately some useful ports are not kept up to date by the authors. I hit this problem with multimedia tools (vat, vic, sdr, nte, ...) each of them using a different vintage of tk depending on the year they were released. Some of these ports were updated to use the newer tk (e.g. vat/vic), some were not. I understand that there might be incompatibilities and the upgrade might require some work, but then it make no sense to upgrade only a few ports, it would be less work (and less risk of introducing new bugs) to let each package use its native release of tk. luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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