From owner-freebsd-tcltk@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 15:28:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: tcltk@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7530659 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwbacon@tds.net) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB868FC13 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id s9so6103500iec.13 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:28:18 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=SKxz5LQUG/XIvP/7fJ8cJ2Vvx1c0ecmNHv/HnlRvWpg=; b=NGYlSeuu4ocEAGvPgYKvOcl1SdX+nOLBeKY/vzCFiUdgvGy5JEuCZ1lmfEY6+OQxz1 n9tmbxzqsTTOhaEKkDEzcAI0FqLCq80vtKCvZfHypD58LhKcYx9hJiVyo9sagIfbABAT nFgF5HEb9yzFMLIbci0lh0Q7l12HBFin8d5vGMpPm4JjuLZf4orGlNAttgmhUaLpU/3K 4joBIKLsSyhVb+YG5H9iP565625BDv3kbIoict37El2DeooBrVYWa6FQDySieoz2OitY NXFbSEqjdoNmo5b41aHPQB6YpCORA4wA592GtPSiZ/Ba9IINCfmE/gYL1VX3SasQQ+qy fmFQ== Received: by 10.50.152.137 with SMTP id uy9mr1816587igb.62.1355498898445; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sculpin.jbacon.dyndns.org (h69-131-100-204.nwblwi.broadband.dynamic.tds.net. [69.131.100.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x7sm4172377igk.8.2012.12.14.07.28.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:28:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50CB458F.70806@tds.net> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:28:15 -0600 From: Jason Bacon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111228 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tcltk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lens with Tcl/Tk 8.4 References: <20121204110619.GB5906@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <20121210083148.GG11579@gahrfit.gahr.ch> In-Reply-To: <20121210083148.GG11579@gahrfit.gahr.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlY6PeImqTg8HFUj7PEe1YHeTMFmjRHJF8mK9Io9ku9Wp/lwC2VVVhLmoIgkrnvk3L1ripq Cc: Pietro Cerutti X-BeenThere: freebsd-tcltk@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Tcl/Tk discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:28:19 -0000 I just spent some time investigating what it will take to upgrade to 8.4 or later. It looks like extensive code modification is going to be needed, and given that no new version of LENS has been released in at least 5 years, I'd say it's time to just drop the port. I'll be happy to resurrect it if the developer takes a renewed interest. Regards, -J On 12/10/2012 02:31, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hello Jason, > > I'm contacting you as the maintainer of the math/lensnns port on > FreeBSD. > > We (tcltk@FreeBSD.org) are planning to expire and get rid of Tcl/Tk 8.3, > and math/lensnns is the last consumer in the ports tree. I have tried to > contact the author about the possibility to make Lens work with Tcl/Tk > 8.4, but emails to him bounce back (see below). > > So what I'm asking to you is, do you actively use the software on > FreeBSD and if it's the case, would you be able to make it work with > Tcl/Tk 8.4 (or higher), so that we can deprecate 8.3? > > Thanks for letting us know! > > Pietro > for tcltk@ > > On 2012-Dec-04, 12:06, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> Hi Douglas, >> >> I'm part of the team maintaining Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD (tcltk@FreeBSD.org). >> >> We're planning to get rid of the long-unsupported 8.3 release series, >> and Lens is one of the last packages that still depends on it here. >> >> Do you have any plans to upgrade to a newer Tcl/Tk version? >> >> Thanks for letting us know! >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> -- >> Pietro Cerutti >> The FreeBSD Project >> gahr@FreeBSD.org >> >> PGP Public Key: >> http://gahr.ch/pgp > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jason W. Bacon jwbacon@tds.net http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~