From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 23 04:18:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA08972 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 04:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.xs4all.nl (smtp2.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA08967 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 04:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp2.xs4all.nl (8.8.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id NAA19660 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id NAA06006 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:17:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.6/8.7.3) id TAA08028; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 19:29:25 +0200 (MET DST) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tkman and tk-8.0 References: <87n2mact3o.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 22 Aug 1997 19:29:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Thomas Gellekum's message of 22 Aug 1997 14:14:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87k9hep1n2.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.25/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On 22 Aug 1997 14:14:35 +0200, Thomas Gellekum said: TG> tkman-2.0 will require a patch to Tk-8.0 and won't run with TG> older versions. The patch is available as invisible.patch in TG> the latest beta TG> (ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman-2.0b6.tar.Z) TG> and probably won't get included into Tk-8.0. Can we just TG> include it in the tk80 port? The resulting wish is compatible TG> to the original, just the text widget contains an additional TG> command (`-invisible') which tkman-2.0 depends upon. Another TG> possibility would be a separate port for this, which seems TG> silly to me. O no, what is this horrible tendency in Tcl/Tk programs and/or programmers that always need patches and 'extentions' to components they rely on. Horrible. I know that sometimes you build software upon another piece that you'd like to be a bit different, but that's a fact of life and one should find workarounds. Blergh -- /\_/\ ( o.o ) Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust me, I know ) ^ ( plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | what I'm doing.