On Wed 14 Mar 2007 01:03, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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? > > Probably the various incompatibilities are usually minor, so someone > with basic knowledge of tcl/tk can forward-port the legacy code to the > latest version. I'd be happy if someone were to do this for FreeBSD, > at least for the older tcl/tk versions. > > Kris
It seems most ports work fine with tcl84, and that tcl<84 deps are historical rather than technical (no one looked if the ports works with tcl84). Anyway, I started working on this. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
