Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, forrie@forrie.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails Message-ID: <199812160554.VAA75083@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812152203520.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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:But the reasons for keeping tcl _out_ of the main systems are a heck of
:a lot larger than those for perl. Unfortunately, the tcl folks
:seemingly care very little about maintaining backwards compatibility,
:and many tcl tools require their own specific version of tcl/tk to run.
:That's been a major problem with tcl, and I don't quite understand why
:those folks can't see that. It certainly would have made tcl the ideal
:language, if they'd just cared a little more about not constantly
:turning tcl apps into legacy apps.
I would just like to add that I have several TCL/TK projects and
what Chuck is saying is 100% absolutely true. Porting between
releases is a nightmare.
Not only that, but tcl/tk-8 is unstable. If we were to make tcl
part of the base release, it would be a disaster every time a new
version came out. Maybe they've fixed their memory corruption
problems, but...
:Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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