From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 2 10:30:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA17408 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cockatoo.aus.org (isis@cockatoo.aus.org [199.166.246.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17352 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from isis@localhost) by cockatoo.aus.org (8.8.6/8.8.7) id NAA01989; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:27:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199709020522.WAA20066@precipice.shockwave.com> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Cockatoo Demolition Consortium From: Queen Rusty To: Paul Traina Subject: Re: ports broken by recent tcl/tk changes Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > 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