From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 20:01:12 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 B5B0816A401 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06C713C459 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825561A3C1A; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C34E151350; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:01:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:01:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070314200111.GA51218@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu> <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu> <20070314054754.GA18796@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 20:01:12 -0000 On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:26:25AM -0700, Garrett Cooper 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 This makes better sense and is in line with what I would expect. Kris