From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 25 08:15:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27667 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA27661 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA15795; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:15:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA12430; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:15:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:15:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Satoshi Asami cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl In-Reply-To: <199706250044.RAA14758@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: > Also, the main reason for this was to ease the transition from one > version to another. Maybe for a hacker like you it doesn't matter, > but for users who don't know how to hack ports to use whatever version > they have, this is the only way to get ports that require different > base tcl/tk to peacefully coexist. Well, perhaps Chuck is volunteering to go through all the ports and patch them so that they'll work with v7.5, 7.6, or 8.0, whichever happens to be on the installer's machine... :-) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk