Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:50:10 +0100 From: "Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?=" <Lars@koellers.net> To: "J. Chris Coppick" <jchris@znet.com> Cc: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade of itcl breaks tkdesk Message-ID: <200312161950.hBGJoAZj003560@odie.koellers.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "J. Chris Coppick" <jchris@znet.com> of "Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:30:50 PST." <3FDE19FA.40905@znet.com>
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Hello, i'm really sad to hear tkdesk is nearly dead. It's a nice tool, but in = with KDE and GNOME fighting against on the desktop, there is no = interest in small usefull tool. However, it would be very nice to bring tkdesk to tcl8.4+, and have it = available some more time. Perhaps we should modify the port to use his own static linked = itcl lib, only included in the tkdesk port for keeping tkdesk = running if it's not possible to have enough resources to port it to a = current tcl version. So far good luck and best regards Lars In reply to "J. Chris Coppick" who wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Andy Sparrow wrote: >| (jchris, maintainer of 'tkdesk' added to Cc: list) >| > >Thanks, Andy. > >| [...] >| >| It's obviously not my decision to take, but I regret to say that I ten= d >| to the view that it is probably best for -ports as a whole to update >| 'itcl' to 8.4 if the only thing holding it back is the 'tkdesk' port. >| >| This would leave 'tkdesk' broken, to be updated as/when possible. I >| might be mistaken, but I don't think it's worked on Linux since they >| went to 8.3 - and that *BSD is the only place where 'tkdesk' has worke= d >| for quite some time. >| > >Due to other professional/personal responsibilities and interests on my >part, combined with a lack of serious contributors, TkDesk can be >considered, at best, dormant if not completely dead. I'd been planning >to seek another maintainer(s), or, lacking success at that, to >officially mothball the project. Sadly, I couldn't even be bothered to >make the time necessary to do that small task (mea culpa). > >Having said that... Recently I have had some extra time and have been >considering a release that would at least bring TkDesk in line with >Tcl 8.4+. However, I certainly would not recommend that anyone hold >back any releases/upgrades based on that slim possibility. > >Unfortunately, my recommendation is to leave TkDesk behind and, in the >process, heap as much shame on me as possible, in hopes that the >crushing burden of guilt will eventually squeeze out some sort of >constructive action on my part. > >Sincerely, > > Chris > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/3hn6u35obsyuq1QRAgsRAKC93DkreSHYOSi/HpyL9UMoOAFitgCffXk8 >hjkAQz27iQ1tN3uwCENtlt8=3D >=3DHbPp >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- = Lars K=F6ller E-Mail: lars@koellers.net (LKoeller@FreeBSD.ORG) -------- FreeBSD, was sonst? ---- http://www.de.freebsd.org --------
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