Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:13:38 -0800 (PST) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, steve@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tkdesk, pr ports/5282 and tcl Message-ID: <199802271513.HAA05984@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9802270902.AA19520@symbionics.co.uk> (dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk)
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* I've just recevied a couple of emails re the tkdesk-1,0b5 port that * was committed last weekend. It ain't working. That's not good. :< * As I rasied in the tcl thread last week there is lots of * Tcl code depending on stuff like itcl which is not tcl8.x compatible. Yeah. They come up with so many new versions that are not backward compatible it's almost a joke. I'm going to back-port ports/misc/kp to Motif when I have time. It used to be a Motif program, I ported it to tcl/tk back in the 7.3/3.6 days to make it usable for more people. Bad, bad idea. I have to keep fixing the port as new versions of tcl/tk always seem to break it. * This is not something porters can fix for the original authors*, and * should committers change the submitted port without checking with the * port author and obviously not testing it. You are right, and this will be fixed shortly (thanks Steve! :). My apologies. But please understand, not many porters submit upgrades as regularly as you, and we are sometimes forced to do a mass exodus ourselves to try to reduce the number of dependent tcl/tk installations on the users' machines. This is a problem with no "right" solution.... * *For example; tkdesk is based on its own version of a hacked * version of an early version of itcl which will never ever work * in Tcl8.0. The TkDesk author reckons that is going to be * about 2months work to get it to work with the current version of * itcl and he knows the code! I hope there won't be a new version of tcl/tk in the next 2 months! :p Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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