On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Adam Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:48:01 +0100
> Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the report but you're slightly wrong in the diagnostic :)
> 
> Ah, cool. Glad to hear that there were/are considered design decisions behind 
> the implementation.
> 
> > sqlite3-tcl is built against tcl-8.5. The real problem is that
> > sqlite3-tcl requires a tcl interpreter with threads support. Tcl 8.5
> > threads support is disabled by default (upstream's decision, not
> > ours).
> > 
> > I made this patch for you but we can't commit it because this type of
> > change could to break old tcl packages.
> 
> That's good to know when evaluating the portability of TCL-8.5 scripts 
> [on/in]to the OpenBSD platform.
> 
> I built SQLite3 (with fts5 support) for my local development. I might build a 
> local Tcl-8.5 with threads support. If Tcl-8.5 and Tcl-8.6 can use the same 
> SQLite [executable] library, it might make sense to use a custom/local 
> Tcl-8.5. 
> 
> Thanks for the informative response! :)
> 
> How might the Tcl and SQLite-Tcl ports/packages change in the near future? Or 
> is it highly probable that they will remain fairly similar to the way they 
> are in 5.8-stable?

CCing to MAINTAINER. He knows better than me.


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