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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:43:21 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r308158 - in head: . lang lang/tcl82 x11-toolkits x11-toolkits/tk82
Message-ID:  <20121203174321.GB5305@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <50BCDC5C.3080006@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201212031649.qB3Gnmt9076932@svn.freebsd.org> <50BCDC5C.3080006@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 11:07:40AM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 10:49 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > Author: gahr
> > Date: Mon Dec  3 16:49:48 2012
> > New Revision: 308158
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/308158
> >=20
> > Log:
> >   - Retire Tcl/Tk 8.2 now that the last consumer (deskutils/abacus) has=
 gone
> >   - Fix typo in previous commit in MOVED
> >  =20
> >   Feature safe:	yes
> >=20
>=20
>=20
> I take issue with retiring a library/language port with such short
> notice like this, since no other ports depend on it. This certainly
> could live on as a leaf port and still be useful.
>=20
Except that tcl82 is no more supported upstream and there is an infrastruct=
ure
behind a language with multiple version like this meaning you have to test =
if
any of the tcl related software work with it or not, better less version of=
 a
language with good support that all the version but badly supported/tested =
imho.

regards,
Bapt

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