From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 7 06:04:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA05269 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 06:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05262 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 06:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26347; Tue, 7 May 1996 09:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA17550; Tue, 7 May 1996 09:04:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 09:04:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Narvi cc: FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tcl75/tk41 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 May 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :) > > On Mon, 6 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Am I the only one who has really checked out applications under the newly > > released versions of tcl/tk, 7.5 and 4.1? At least as far as I have > > experimented so far, everything I've tried has worked real well. I have > > even gotten the new design tool SpecTCL to work. > > > > Maybe it's time to consider tossing the other tcl versions we've > > accumulated in ports, and rename things to tcl/tk again. At least, I'd > > like to hear some comments from anyone else who's experimented with stuff. > > I haven't - but I took a look at comp.lang.tcl(?) or something - I don't > periodically read newsgroups - some time ago and there was some talk > about prolems with backward compatibility... Perhaps someone can confirm > or counter-confirm this? It's pretty well known that the new tcl version (anything past 7.3/3.6) are not compatible with the originals. I saw Satoshi's reply, I guess we won't be making tcl75-->tcl. I guess (when I read the reasons) that I even agree. Maybe I was getting too enthusiastic, but I am very impressed at how good tcl75 seems to be (with applications that were written for tcl75). ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.