Hi and thanks for the input! On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Totally non-authoritative user opinion here: to me it makes sense: > scripts should state dependency on the interpreter/lib version > explicitly anyway (and Tcl has a mechanism for that), user from the > command line will get some sensible default via symlink. > > The only downside I see is the access to the "right" man pages: > the alternatives mechanism provides an elegant way to do that > (whenever my default is tcl X.Y I'll "see" tcl X.Y's man pages).
In fact, we don't use alternatives for manpages (only for tclsh.1 and wish.1). All tcl*-doc (or tk*-doc) packages are conflicting with each other, and tcl-doc recommends (not depends to make it possible to install any, only one though, desired doc version) the default docs version. > > Is there any other way to achieve that? How does Python do that? > (Maybe Python doesn't rely that much on man, its culture being > much less unixy). AFAIK, python uses HTML documentation, and just a few manpages for utilities in section 1 (for which there're symlinks in the python and python-minimal packages). Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan _______________________________________________ Pkg-tcltk-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-tcltk-devel
