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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:47:54 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Why so many tcl's and tk's
Message-ID:  <20070314054754.GA18796@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu>
References:  <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu> <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu>

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:46:48PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> >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?

Dunno what you mean by this.

Kris



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