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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:15:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcl
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970625111331.11321A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199706250044.RAA14758@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>

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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

> Also, the main reason for this was to ease the transition from one
> version to another.  Maybe for a hacker like you it doesn't matter,
> but for users who don't know how to hack ports to use whatever version
> they have, this is the only way to get ports that require different
> base tcl/tk to peacefully coexist.

Well, perhaps Chuck is volunteering to go through all the ports
and patch them so that they'll work with v7.5, 7.6, or 8.0,
whichever happens to be on the installer's machine...  :-)


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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