Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970624183615.22918A-100000@Journey2.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199706242222.PAA14433@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I know that tcl is part of the main system now. I wish either tk was too,
> * or else that neither tcl nor tk were. I don't really care which.
> *
> * Am I alone in this? If so, I won't bring it up again.
>
> Probably not. However, there is no way tk is going into the base
> system, as it requires X. If you ever tried building the XFree86
> port, you'll know why ("make World" takes longer than "make world"!).
>
> As for tcl, I wish it weren't there either, but it is already in the
> base system and so are many scripts writting in tcl.
>
> Besides, you brought this up in the wrong list. -ports can't make
> decisions like this. ;)
Well, I was thinking about all the stuff done to allow different versions
of tcl and tk to coexist. In my opinion, they break the method that
tcl/tk uses to determine things itself.
I agree, tk wouldn't be added. I'd be happy yanking tcl out of the
sources. I guess I just didn't want to crosspost on this, yet. I might
bring it up on hackers, later. I don't think there are any scripts in tcl
that couldn't be in perl.
>
> Satoshi
>
>
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