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From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@x22>
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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?))
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Tim Vanderhoek stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Doesn't something seem very wrong with saying "Ok, we're going to
> > have Tcl in the base system, but no applications are allowed to
> > use it."?
> 
> No.  Applications can _use_ it; what is wrong is the ports collection
> _depending_ on it.

Where "applications" roughly equals "ports".

Yes, that I agree with completely.  I may have misunderstood your
intent (I was relying on your prev. messages than this one
specifically).


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