On Nov 17, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:53:56AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: >> Joshua, >> Do you realize that https://trac.macports.org/changeset/99712 broke all >> tcl/tk software that uses software like blt which uses fork() without exec() >> like blt... >> >> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-tickets/2012-July/115001.html >> >> If you are going to make a rash change like this, please warn the other >> developers so we can attempt to limit the breakage in our packages. >> Jack > > The changes to tcl seem particularly ill concieved since it seems to leave > users without even the option of building a no_corefoundation variant as the > non-default. What do you mean? You can build with -corefoundation ... > Also do we seriously think that more people will be using > tk in quartz mode than in the legacy x11 mode? I think the tcl change is fine. You're changing topics now to focus on the tk change. Would you prefer a conflicting x11 variant? > If not, please leave the default > to disable corefoundation and have the tk quartz variant depend on the > tcl corefoundation variant. As a first step, please revert r99712. I don't think it should be reverted. I can see perhaps changing the default_variants in tk, but I see no reason to --disable-corefoundation by default in tcl. --Jeremy _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
