Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:27:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Queen Rusty <isis@cockatoo.aus.org> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, (Satoshi Asami) <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: ports broken by recent tcl/tk changes Message-ID: <XFMail.970902132725.isis@cockatoo.aus.org> In-Reply-To: <199709020522.WAA20066@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On 02-Sep-97 Paul Traina squawked: > FYI, I received a letter from Sanjay yesterday saying he'll be releasing > an 8.0 compatible version of ical shortly, so I won't bother to update > the current port until he does that. > > Paul > > From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> > Subject: Re: ports broken by recent tcl/tk changes > exmh should be removed and exmh2 should be renamed to exmh, exmh is so > stale > it's not funny... > > I'll take a peek at ical. I'm surprised tkgoodstuff still works -- I'm in > the process of fixing it to work with the tcl/tk 8.0 ports. > > I'd like to point out to everyone that we really want to get ports OFF of > the > tcl7.6/tk4.2 code. Tcl/Tk v8.x is MUCH faster. If you have a choice to go > either way, please port to the new code. > I am running tcl/tk 8.0 only , and have some ports working fine , i believe i uploaded the latest tkgoodstuff which built perfectly with no changes . I was looking around at several tk ports home pages, and in some cases the authors have yet to release 8.0 compatible versions of their programs. In any case. I am running a 3.0-SNAP system and would be very willing to help fix any ports. I'm not quite sure how to go about it , any direction would be greatly appreciated. Luke
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