From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 24 15:40:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11521 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 15:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11445 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 15:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id SAA09191; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:39:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA06307; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:39:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Satoshi Asami cc: FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl In-Reply-To: <199706242222.PAA14433@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I know that tcl is part of the main system now. I wish either tk was too, > * or else that neither tcl nor tk were. I don't really care which. > * > * Am I alone in this? If so, I won't bring it up again. > > Probably not. However, there is no way tk is going into the base > system, as it requires X. If you ever tried building the XFree86 > port, you'll know why ("make World" takes longer than "make world"!). > > As for tcl, I wish it weren't there either, but it is already in the > base system and so are many scripts writting in tcl. > > Besides, you brought this up in the wrong list. -ports can't make > decisions like this. ;) Well, I was thinking about all the stuff done to allow different versions of tcl and tk to coexist. In my opinion, they break the method that tcl/tk uses to determine things itself. I agree, tk wouldn't be added. I'd be happy yanking tcl out of the sources. I guess I just didn't want to crosspost on this, yet. I might bring it up on hackers, later. I don't think there are any scripts in tcl that couldn't be in perl. > > Satoshi > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------