On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:26 PM Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/1/2024 01:18, Mark Anderson wrote: > > Woah, never thought I'd see it: > > https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/9.0.html > > <https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/9.0.html> > > > > I wonder how big an impact it will be? Since we ship out own, not rush > > (It's also still beta) but interesting nonetheless. > > The namespace resolution may affect some of our code, and the tilde > change definitely does. It wouldn't surprise me if there are some more > incompatibilities not listed on that page. We'll probably go to 8.7 > first for base. > > For ports, I would guess we'll need to keep Tcl 8 and 9 available as > separate ports for quite some time. > > - Josh FWIW, here is their TCL 9 migration guide with more details. It is noted as work in progress. https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/wiki?name=Migrating+scripts+to+Tcl+9
