Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:27:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina), cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/tk41 Makefile ports/x11/tk41/files Makefile.lib md5 ports/x11/tk41/patches patch-ab patch-ac patch Message-ID: <199707071327.HAA11866@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199707070627.PAA29365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199707070608.XAA07638@precipice.shockwave.com> <199707070627.PAA29365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to achieve here; could you > > perhaps expand on your motives? > > > > Restoring tcl to port status, so that it may be upgraded or downgraded > > more flexibly. The tcl in FreeBSD is ancient. > > I think that you're showing very poor judgement here; this isn't a > move that should be undertaken precipitately, or by someone with your > recorded antipathy to Tcl in general. Nothing in the base system uses TCL, so it should become a port. It's been well over 6 months, and one of the unwritten rules was 'if it's not used in the base system, it should be ripped out of the base system'. This rule is somewhat over-ruled by 'if CSRG shipped it, we do too', but TCL doesn't fall into that class. > Tcl7.5 may well be ancient; so is Perl 4. Both are currently serving > duty as placeholders until 8.0 and 5.x respectively are ready for > integration; this is a well-known and established fact. Perl is used in the base system, while TCL isn't. Nate
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