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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:09:21 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hoek@hwcn.org, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@james.hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com
Subject:   Re: how many tk version do oyu need... 
Message-ID:  <199802222309.PAA08703@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:14:38 %2B0100." <199802222114.WAA05117@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> > Just to head this crap off right here, the "bloat" for a single tk
> > version is about one megabyte.  Let's contrast this with thirty-odd 
> > megabytes for emacs or more than sixty for xemacs.
> 
> I don't care about size, but mess in the filesystem disturbs me a lot.

Where is there "mess"?  I thought Satoshi and co. did an excellent job 
of (mostly) keeping the Tcl/Tk stuff well separated.

> The worse part: the manpages for these versions go all in the same
> place, so you'll get (part of) the old ones overwritten.

This one is still a biter.  I would have liked to see a way of having 
multi-character manpage section names, so I could say

man -tcl open

or even

man -tcl8.0 open

I certainly understand the annoyance that people feel about getting Tcl 
manpages when they were expecting something else.  I feel the same way 
about getting printf(1) instead of printf(3). 8)

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