From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 18:31:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500CF16A4CE; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B148D43D2D; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:31:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from crwdog.demon.co.uk (c-67-168-167-173.client.comcast.net[67.168.167.173]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003121502305901400428see>; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 02:30:59 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1976AF; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:30:51 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: pav@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message from Pav Lucistnik <1071448159.1606.0.camel@hood.oook.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1933968158P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:30:50 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20031215023051.6A1976AF@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: lkoeller@FreeBSD.org cc: jchris@users.sourceforge.net cc: spadger@best.com cc: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= Subject: Re: Upgrade of itcl breaks tkdesk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 02:31:02 -0000 --==_Exmh_1933968158P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (jchris, maintainer of 'tkdesk' added to Cc: list) > > Dear port maintainers, > > = > > the update of itcl to tcl84 totally breaks tkdesk! > > = > > tkdesk at the moment only builds and runs with tk/tcl8.3, and itcl is= = > > now on tcl8.4. > > = > > This mix leads to a core when tkdesk is starting. > > = > > Please can you fix this? It costs me over an hour to track this down.= > = > I backed out lsat update of itcl, sorry for inconvenience. > Are there any chances that tkdesk will get working with tk84? I'll have time to take a look at it at the end of next week, if no-one = gets to it first. No promises, because I think I know what I'm going to = find (namely that it needs more work than I'm prepared to put in, as I = don't use it anymore). > I noticed there wasn't new release of it for nearly 5 years. Yes. Some patches in FreeBSD which make 'tkdesk' work with Tcl/Tk 8.3 = aren't yet incorporated into the source distro, despite originating from = the tkdesk mailing list originally. I saw no activity on SourceForge = last time I looked. There was a similar issue with the recent BLT version bump (solved by = using the internal, obsolete, BLT in the tkdesk source tree), and I seem = to recall that tkdesk also needs a update to stay in line with current = tcl/tk standards, not just janking it up through versions (which has = mostly worked from 8.1). It might be possible to use the same workaround for 'itcl' as was done = for BLT, but this is getting uglier and uglier, and simply staving off = the inevitable. Pav, thanks for your hard work to update 'itcl' and keep it up-to-date = (not to mention those working on the Tcl/Tk updates). It's obviously not my decision to take, but I regret to say that I tend = 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 worked = for quite some time. Regards, AS --==_Exmh_1933968158P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 iD8DBQE/3RzaPHh895bDXeQRAqWeAJ92qI4GbrHANTwtIkZvX54qo0gHcACbB+BF PzMdxzfrKoCXajcH8+c/TR8= =8CY7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1933968158P--