From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 22 02:58:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14710 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA14702 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:58:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1024576; 22 Feb 98 10:41 GMT Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y6YoT-00024D-00; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:39:13 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802212106.WAA03562@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:39:12 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: how many tk version do oyu need... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at post.mail.demon.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Feb-98 Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> that was the reason for my third question :) >> But i still want to know what should i target to -- i believe tk80... >> >> You should ideally have them use tcl/tk81. I plan to start changing ports >> to >> use tk81, I've just been really busy during this past week. > > that's ok for -current, but for -stable, consider that 2.2.6 is > coming out relatively soon. it would be a shame not to complete > the change before the release and have yet another tk version to > carry... > > in other words, either one first moves all tk80 ports to tk81 (which > is fine, hopefully the differences should not be too big) or it is > better to start from the smallest set among tk41 and tk42 ports > and move them to tk80 (might not be trivial... as shown by the > recent problem i was having with vat, the code might compile but > still not run as desired). But there is a bit of a problem with the compatiblilty of the code Tcl and C) itself to run under the different version of Tcl. For example anything using itcl cannot yet run under Tcl8x because itcl doesn't work under Tcl8 yet. Effectivly you are suggesting that we update the Tcl package itself to a new version of Tcl on behalf of the original author. Is this wise? > > in any case the last word should go to the release engineer... > > luigi --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message