Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:48:59 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's Message-ID: <20070314054859.GB18796@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu> References: <45F71306.8040306@math.missouri.edu> <20070313215243.GA13418@xor.obsecurity.org> <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 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? Probably the various incompatibilities are usually minor, so someone with basic knowledge of tcl/tk can forward-port the legacy code to the latest version. I'd be happy if someone were to do this for FreeBSD, at least for the older tcl/tk versions. Kris
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