Oh yeah - the tilde thing for sure set off alarm bells for me. And I agree, we're going to need 8 and 9 for a long while, because a lot of old stuff will never update.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 2:26 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 >
