Date: 22 Aug 1997 19:29:21 +0200 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tkman and tk-8.0 Message-ID: <87k9hep1n2.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Thomas Gellekum's message of 22 Aug 1997 14:14:35 %2B0200 References: <87n2mact3o.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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>> On 22 Aug 1997 14:14:35 +0200, Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> 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
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