From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 9 19:06:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA03215 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA03207 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from channel.eng.umd.edu (channel.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.186]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16741; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:06:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by channel.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01678; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:06:26 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: channel.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:06:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@channel.eng.umd.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl 7.6 & tk 4.2 In-Reply-To: <199702100240.SAA21120@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 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 Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I need tk 4.2 (4.1 won't do) for some applications. I can install it > * myself but I'd rather have it done through /usr/ports. > * > * Is it intended to upgrade /usr/ports to 4.2 anytime soon? > * > * 4.2 and tcl 7.6 have been the official version for several months now. > > There won't be an "upgrade" as tcl-7.5 is in the main source tree and > tk-4.1 is the "default" but tcl-7.6 and tk-4.2 will be imported in the > ports tree if someone can take the time to make a port and submits it. I think as soon as the new version 8.0 gets to release level, then you'll see an upgrade, but not before that. I don't think it'll be too long, but at least a month or two. > > Satoshi > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------