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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:57:39 -0500
From:      "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
To:        Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcl-7.4 / tk-4.0 
Message-ID:  <199509291357.IAA29235@jake.lodgenet.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:11:26 BST." <199509291011.LAA16957@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> 

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> 
> Better rename the old headers.  The package writers will eventually
> upgrade to the newer Tcl/Tk versions.  Maybe it's easier to fix
> the ports using 7.3/3.6 to include tcl73.h and tk36.h and link
> against libtcl73.so.1.0/libtk36.so.1.0 and wait for the upgrade.
> 

I agree with that.  But it would mean breaking ports which work
with the old stuf.

> > Note that with the libtcl.so.7.4 and libtk.so.4.0 scheme, old programs 
> > will still run, it's just that you can't compile them anymore with the 
> > newer versions sitting around.
> 
> Some ports could be replaced with their latest version which already
> uses 7.4/4.0 (e. g., ical).  This is not a problem for tcl-only
> scripts (like tksol) because the wish interpreters are named
> differently by default.
> 

I've got an updated port of ical which does use the new libs, but
I haven't had time to proof-check and update the official port
yet.

eric.
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