Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:37:22 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: RE: how many tk version do oyu need... Message-ID: <XFMail.980221193722.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199802211734.SAA03246@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On 21-Feb-98 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > well, i am trying to compile some of the latest ports and it's quite > a mess since some use tk4.1, some tk4.2, some tk 8.0 ... > > I already hated tk for its abundant runtime errors (reminds me of when i > used to run basic programs and there was no compiler... circa 1981...) > and this need of having 3 or more versions of tk installed makes me > hate it even more (plus, i think manpages for all these version will > overwrite each other...) I used pkg_add in master and slave moe to stuff the manpages in different trees. They really should not overwrite each other. > > So my questions are: > > 1) is there any hope to settle on some "standard" version of tk/tcl > and try to have most ports use that one; A lot of Tk/Tcl code is still not compatible with Tcl8.0, and some isn't even ready for Tcl7.6 yet. > 2) could we flag ports which do not use the "standard" version of > tk/tcl so that one needs to do > > make YES_I_REALLY_WANT_THIS_BLOAT > > to compile them ... maybe this would help some volunteer to fix the > port. I thought FreeBSD removed Tcl from its base tree, so we don't have a "standard" version. > > 3) is there a simple way to list all ports which depend on a given > package (e.g. tk4.1, tk4.2 etc...) again to have an idea of what to > fix. ? Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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