From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 29 06:56:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA16500 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 06:56:33 -0700 Received: from spot.lodgenet.com (lodgenet.iw.net [204.157.148.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA16383 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 06:55:08 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (root@tserv.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.10]) by spot.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA11936; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:51:01 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA03618; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:51:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA29235; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:57:40 -0500 Message-Id: <199509291357.IAA29235@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Thomas Gellekum cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl-7.4 / tk-4.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:11:26 BST." <199509291011.LAA16957@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:57:39 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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