Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:09:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hoek@hwcn.org, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@james.hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com Subject: Re: how many tk version do oyu need... Message-ID: <199802222309.PAA08703@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:14:38 %2B0100." <199802222114.WAA05117@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > Just to head this crap off right here, the "bloat" for a single tk > > version is about one megabyte. Let's contrast this with thirty-odd > > megabytes for emacs or more than sixty for xemacs. > > I don't care about size, but mess in the filesystem disturbs me a lot. Where is there "mess"? I thought Satoshi and co. did an excellent job of (mostly) keeping the Tcl/Tk stuff well separated. > The worse part: the manpages for these versions go all in the same > place, so you'll get (part of) the old ones overwritten. This one is still a biter. I would have liked to see a way of having multi-character manpage section names, so I could say man -tcl open or even man -tcl8.0 open I certainly understand the annoyance that people feel about getting Tcl manpages when they were expecting something else. I feel the same way about getting printf(1) instead of printf(3). 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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