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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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In-Reply-To: <24852.852629215@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 7, 97 01:26:55 am"
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[Moved to -ports]

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> OK, and how about all the other ports which used to extract Tk in
> order to pull private headers out of it?  If we're going to pollute
> the include hierarchy this way, we should at least take maximum
> advantage of it (and to be frank, I think that installing Tk's
> internal non-exported header files is a mistake which will come back
> to haunt us in most annoying ways.

I will be annoying in the same way as any upgrade of Tk. The installed
header (/usr/local/include/tk.h) is always that of the latest version
and may or may not work with a random Tk extension. The same holds for
/usr/include/tcl.h; we're just lucky enough not to have any programs
in the ports which depend on tcl-7.6/tk4.2 (Tix does work with these
versions).

I do realize that this is somewhat controversial.

>  but now that it's done...).

Let's see how long the ports dictator keeps those changes, if the
demonstrations continue. ;-)

tg