From owner-cvs-ports Sun Jul 6 23:57:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28862 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (ppp-206-170-32-212.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.32.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28857; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shockwave.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA12601; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707070653.XAA12601@precipice.shockwave.com> To: Michael Smith cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au (Peter Wemm), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/tcl75 Makefile ports/lang/tcl75/files Makefile.lib md5 ports/lang/tcl75/patches patch-aa patch-ae por In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 1997 16:05:41 +0930." <199707070635.QAA29416@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 23:53:15 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk No way! The fundamental problem with tcl and tk is that their API's change way too rapidly over time. The reason 8.0 ports were not committed were due to the author's disregard for backwards compatibility. tcl/tk 8.0 should go in as ports once they are released, not before. In beta, things are insane.