Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:04:06 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmmmm! Now what? Message-ID: <19980203090406.25982@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199802030747.XAA23388@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 11:47:39PM -0800 References: <15590.886491632@time.cdrom.com> <199802030747.XAA23388@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 11:47:39PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I think that the tk port should set the link and "wish" > * should default to whichever version of Tk I last installed. > > That's good for interactive use but if ports like tkirc are allowed to > just call wish "wish", then we are asking for major trouble. > > If you can think of a way to *force* porters and committer to always > use "wishX.Y" instead of "wish" as their interpreters, then I agree > about tk ports installing the link. Simple. Install something like this as 'wish': #!/bin/sh echo "In FreeBSD, wish is named with a version number. This is because wish has" 1>&2 echo "been incompatible between versions, and we want our ports to keep working." 1>&2 echo 1>&2 echo "On your system, the wish is installed under these names:" 1>&2 for name in $(/bin/ls $(echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g') | egrep '^wish[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$') do echo $name 1>&2 done exit 0 Eivind.
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