Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:01:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's Message-ID: <20070314200111.GA51218@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <F05D3AE4-5DBA-41B2-A958-572C57003A43@u.washington.edu> References: <45F72A58.5020106@math.missouri.edu> <3F849396-95E7-4BED-9EA0-4860E3F7A52E@u.washington.edu> <20070314054754.GA18796@xor.obsecurity.org> <F05D3AE4-5DBA-41B2-A958-572C57003A43@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:26:25AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>>>>Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards > >>>>>compatible with earlier versions? > >>>>No, they are not. > >>> > >>>What a pity. So how come the various linux distributions seem to > >>>get away with only one version of tcl and tk? > >> > >>Better versioning in their package infrastructure? > > > >Dunno what you mean by this. > > > >Kris > > Actually after doing a bit of research it appears that what I meant > in my reply is incorrect. From what I can see Linux uses a method of > branching with its tcl and tk packages similar to what FreeBSD does. > I know my sample size is small, but I'm pretty sure it's a defacto > standard if these two distros do the branch versioning that I see: > > Debian (scroll almost all the way to the bottom to find the tk refs): > - http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/ > Gentoo: > - http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=tcl This makes better sense and is in line with what I would expect. Kris
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