On 2013-07-10 00:01, Clemens Lang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:21:41PM +0200, Gustaf Neumann wrote: >> It certainly needs an update in the macports base, but i would not >> expect this to be painful. Let me know, if i can help. > > At the moment there's not much we can do, before we have a working > bootstrap mechanism for Tcl 8.6 (or rather, > 8.5) in place. While there > is a backport implementation of Tcl 8.6's try proc available in > Tcllib[1] it doesn't work on Tcl 8.4, which means we cannot currently > ship it in MacPorts base, since that would break some old systems stuck > with 8.4.
In the same way we currently have a local implementation of try based upon TIP #89, we could make it compatible with TIP #329/Tcl 8.6 instead. This could mean just importing the one from Tcllib (haven't checked its license) and make it work on Tcl 8.4. I don't think there is a need to wait until we have a bundled Tcl 8.6. Of course this also requires adaptions of all uses of the try proc in base, but that is only in a few limited places (around 30 times). Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
