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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:46:48 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: Why so many tcl's and tk's
Message-ID:  <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu>
References:  <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu>

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> From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
> Date: March 13, 2007 3:48:56 PM PDT
> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's
>
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith  
>> wrote:
>>> Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards  
>>> compatible with earlier versions?
>> No, they are not.
>
> What a pity.  So how come the various linux distributions seem to  
> get away with only one version of tcl and tk?

Better versioning in their package infrastructure?

-Garrett



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