On 2008-12-12 08:27+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: >> Hi everybody: >> >> >> If anybody here strongly objects to disabling Tcl and Tk by default in our >> build system (i.e., you would have to specifically set -DENABLE_tcl=ON and >> -DENABLE_tk=ON to get access to Tcl/Tk from now on), please let me know >> soon >> since I am going to have to make the decision before our Sunday release. >> > > I have so far not seen any such problems on Windows - but I look > at the Tcl bindings mostly. I have not been able to follow the discussion > properly, but I would like to suggest the following: > - Enable Tcl by default > - Disable Tk by default > - Disable Itcl and Itk by default > > The problems seem to arise with Tk, plserver and the use of Itcl/Itk. > (Itcl/Itk uses the internals of Tcl and Tk and these may change from > one release to the next, hence the incompatibility with Tcl 8.5.)
Thanks, Arjen, for that suggestion. I was debating whether to propose enabling Tcl by default regardless (since it certainly has no segfault problems as revealed by ctest), and now you have confirmed that idea. So I will follow your above suggestion in detail (unless some other Tcl/Tk user here has strong objections to the above detailed plan or somebody manages to figure out the segfaults). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
