Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:32:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tcl 7.4 / Tk 4.0 Ports Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950726112832.4348A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507261051.DAA09888@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * 1. Should they be done? (I mean the only work needed is the ports wrapper) > > By all means, yes. However, tk4.x is not compatible with tk3.x, so I > recommend you call it "tk4" or something. That way we can have both > versions. > > >From what I've heard, tcl7.4 is just an upgrade of tcl7.3. If that is > true, we can replace the current tcl port. This is just a reinforcement. The new tcl/tk versions aren't compatbile with the old ones, and many of the existing applications will fail under the new ones. I haven't seen a lot of activity (yet) by the writers of extensions, to make them compatible with the new versions. The last thing in the world you would want to do would be to replace the old ones with the new ones, because this would break all your applications. Yes, I agree the ports should be done, but Satoshi's right, they MUST be kept separate from the existing ones. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0R) and n3lxx (301) 220-2114 | (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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