Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:26:25 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's Message-ID: <F05D3AE4-5DBA-41B2-A958-572C57003A43@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070314054754.GA18796@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu> <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu> <20070314054754.GA18796@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 Actually after doing a bit of research it appears that what I meant in my reply is incorrect. From what I can see Linux uses a method of branching with its tcl and tk packages similar to what FreeBSD does. I know my sample size is small, but I'm pretty sure it's a defacto standard if these two distros do the branch versioning that I see: Debian (scroll almost all the way to the bottom to find the tk refs): - http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/ Gentoo: - http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=tcl -Garrett
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