On 10/02/2015 08:44, Dale wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 2015-10-02, o godz. 03:38:16 >> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 09/30/2015 06:02 AM, Justin (jlec) wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> is no active maintainer for tcltk in Gentoo anymore. >>>> >>>> Please stand up or try to remove tcltk support from your packages. >>>> >>>> Justin >>>> >>> I know next to nothing about tcl/tk but it's been an idle curiosity of >>> mine. Are there any particularly important packages that run on them? >> dev-tcltk/expect is sometimes used for modem chats. >> >> net-im/tkabber used to be pretty good but I haven't looked at it in ages. >> > > > I have these that use tcl or tk: > > > root@fireball / # equery h tk > * Searching for USE flag tk ... > [IP-] [ ] app-office/scribus-1.4.4-r1:0 > [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/R-3.2.2:0 > [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.7.10:2.7 > [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-3.4.3:3.4 > [IP-] [ ] dev-python/pillow-2.8.1:0 > [IP-] [ ] dev-python/pyopengl-3.0.2-r1:0 > [IP-] [ ] dev-vcs/git-2.4.9:0 > [IP-] [ ] net-im/pidgin-2.10.11:0 > [IP-] [ ] sci-electronics/pcb-20140316:0 > [IP-] [ ] virtual/python-imaging-2:0 > root@fireball / # equery h tcl > * Searching for USE flag tcl ... > [IP-] [ ] dev-db/sqlite-3.8.10.2:3 > [IP-] [ ] media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4:0 > [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.5.4:0 > [IP-] [ ] net-im/pidgin-2.10.11:0 > [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/db-4.8.30-r2:4.8 > root@fireball / #
tcl/tk support should remain if at all possible, especially in Python. TCL is the base language, and well-entrenched in some really niche areas, like eggdrop bot scripting and the like. IIRC, everything in TCL is effectively a string, and it's very much an event-driven language via the use of "binds". Tk is for creating cross-platform GUIs using TCL, and Python people have likely encountered Tk as "Tkinter", Python's wrapper around Tk for creating cross-platform Python GUIs (like gitk). -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
