Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:57:39 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl-7.4 / tk-4.0 Message-ID: <199509291357.IAA29235@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:11:26 BST." <199509291011.LAA16957@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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> > Better rename the old headers. The package writers will eventually > upgrade to the newer Tcl/Tk versions. Maybe it's easier to fix > the ports using 7.3/3.6 to include tcl73.h and tk36.h and link > against libtcl73.so.1.0/libtk36.so.1.0 and wait for the upgrade. > I agree with that. But it would mean breaking ports which work with the old stuf. > > Note that with the libtcl.so.7.4 and libtk.so.4.0 scheme, old programs > > will still run, it's just that you can't compile them anymore with the > > newer versions sitting around. > > Some ports could be replaced with their latest version which already > uses 7.4/4.0 (e. g., ical). This is not a problem for tcl-only > scripts (like tksol) because the wish interpreters are named > differently by default. > I've got an updated port of ical which does use the new libs, but I haven't had time to proof-check and update the official port yet. eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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