On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:14 PM, Kurt Hindenburg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 9/6/14, 9:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >> Many ports that use tcl also need the tcl source code (to get the
> "private" headers, which are apparently not that private since everybody
> uses them), and they hardcode the tcl version. What other solution would
> you suggest?
> >
> > Anything like this for tcl?  {python.version} {perl5.major} or similar?
>
> No, because we only provide one version of Tcl.
>

Perhaps more to the point, the fact that MacPorts itself uses Tcl means
that it's much harder to deal with multiple versions. (As it is, I think
recently it started installing its own to avoid conflicts with varying
Apple versions etc.?)

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