From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 14:26:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D91116A400 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:26:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5817E13C448 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:26:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2EEQQcM029819 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:26:27 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.42] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2EEQQpM016361 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:26:26 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) 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> X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:26:25 -0700 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.14.71434 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:26:27 -0000 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 >>> 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