From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 24 17:31:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16320 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:31:28 -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 RAA16311 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:31:24 -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 UAA25515; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:31:15 -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 UAA11139; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:31:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:30:50 -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: <199706242254.PAA14518@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: > * 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. > > Yes, but that doesn't have anything to do with a certain version of > tcl being in /usr. With tcl-7.5/7.6 and tk-4.1/4.2 as well as their > Japanese counterparts, we'll still have the same problem. (Is 8.0 out > of alpha yet?) First beta is out. There's a port, too, not yet committed. I just don't see the necessity of making all the different versions live together. I can't imagine the necessity. > > * 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. > > No comment on that from me. ;) > > 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------