From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 10 11:48:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20850 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA20648 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:44:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id UAA06722 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:43:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id UAA13146 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:36:07 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.4/8.7.3) id TAA00495; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:28:18 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl 7.6 & tk 4.2 References: <199702100441.UAA21473@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:28:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu's message of Sun, 9 Feb 1997 20:41:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <87u3nko6ri.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 39 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.11/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 20:41:02 -0800 (PST), >> asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) said: SA> * I think as soon as the new version 8.0 gets to release SA> level, then you'll SA> * see an upgrade, but not before that. I don't think it'll SA> be too long, but SA> * at least a month or two. SA> No, there will NOT be an upgrade, at least in the ports tree. SA> (/usr/src is a different matter, of course.) These ports, if SA> they were to be put in the ports tree, will go in different SA> directories (tcl8 and tk8). SA> I believe Jordan (jkh@freebsd.org) is now working exclusively SA> on modifying his submitted tcl/tk-8.0 ports to make them SA> co-exist with default ones. The Tcl versions is a confusing situation. I just compiled itcl 2.2 (not a port) and it contains special versions of Tcl 7.6 and Tk 4.2. Tcl/Tk 8 have these special additions and will work out of the box with itcl and other extensions. Maybe it is better to wait for version 8 (or currently use their beta versions) and forget about Tcl 7.6/Tk 4.2. Also, I doubt whether it is worthwhile to make versions coexist. This will lead to very confusing situations when adding Tcl-Tk extensions (such as TclX, BLT, itcl). Following announcements on comp.lang.tcl.announce it is clear that all major add-ons and TclTk apps already have a beta version that is made for version 8. I think the older versions can be dropped completely soon. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have