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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