Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:30:50 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <lars@koellers.net> Subject: Re: Upgrade of itcl breaks tkdesk Message-ID: <20031215023051.6A1976AF@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> <1071448159.1606.0.camel@hood.oook.cz>
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--==_Exmh_1933968158P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (jchris, maintainer of 'tkdesk' added to Cc: list) > > Dear port maintainers, > > = > > the update of itcl to tcl84 totally breaks tkdesk! > > = > > tkdesk at the moment only builds and runs with tk/tcl8.3, and itcl is= = > > now on tcl8.4. > > = > > This mix leads to a core when tkdesk is starting. > > = > > Please can you fix this? It costs me over an hour to track this down.= > = > I backed out lsat update of itcl, sorry for inconvenience. > Are there any chances that tkdesk will get working with tk84? I'll have time to take a look at it at the end of next week, if no-one = gets to it first. No promises, because I think I know what I'm going to = find (namely that it needs more work than I'm prepared to put in, as I = don't use it anymore). > I noticed there wasn't new release of it for nearly 5 years. Yes. Some patches in FreeBSD which make 'tkdesk' work with Tcl/Tk 8.3 = aren't yet incorporated into the source distro, despite originating from = the tkdesk mailing list originally. I saw no activity on SourceForge = last time I looked. There was a similar issue with the recent BLT version bump (solved by = using the internal, obsolete, BLT in the tkdesk source tree), and I seem = to recall that tkdesk also needs a update to stay in line with current = tcl/tk standards, not just janking it up through versions (which has = mostly worked from 8.1). It might be possible to use the same workaround for 'itcl' as was done = for BLT, but this is getting uglier and uglier, and simply staving off = the inevitable. Pav, thanks for your hard work to update 'itcl' and keep it up-to-date = (not to mention those working on the Tcl/Tk updates). It's obviously not my decision to take, but I regret to say that I tend = to the view that it is probably best for -ports as a whole to update = 'itcl' to 8.4 if the only thing holding it back is the 'tkdesk' port. This would leave 'tkdesk' broken, to be updated as/when possible. I = might be mistaken, but I don't think it's worked on Linux since they = went to 8.3 - and that *BSD is the only place where 'tkdesk' has worked = for quite some time. Regards, AS --==_Exmh_1933968158P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 iD8DBQE/3RzaPHh895bDXeQRAqWeAJ92qI4GbrHANTwtIkZvX54qo0gHcACbB+BF PzMdxzfrKoCXajcH8+c/TR8= =8CY7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1933968158P--
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