On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 05:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> You can probably do something very similar with a different tag in Koji. >> >> That's how Python 2.6 was introduced in rawhide. Fedora maintainers >> >> should be using this feature in this build system more often. Openssl >> >> hassles could have been avoided by using it as well for example. >> > >> > So can we get Tcl/Tk 8.6 into F11 even if it's late? :-) >> >> Could be depending on how disruptive it is. > > It doesn't seem to have been a big issue for MDV. Most of the trouble I > had was in converting things to the new (for MDV) Tcl packaging policy I > implemented at the same time - which is basically the Fedora policy, > because I liked the look of it. > > In terms of pure 8.5 -> 8.6 issues, there weren't many, 99% of them > really being just one issue (the use of interp->result is now disallowed > by default, and quite a lot of Tcl code uses this, even though it's been > officially deprecated and not recommended for like a decade). It's > generally very easy for a coder to fix (so not always for me :>), I > upstreamed fixes in quite a few apps, for apps which are dead upstream > but in MDV you can pull my patches from MDV SVN, and in the worst case, > you can allow its use by adding a #define at the top of the source file > concerned (I had to do this in a few packages where I couldn't grok the > 'right' way to fix the code). > > So I would say it would be possible. Whether it's desirable for Fedora, > I don't really know. It may not be a good idea to do it this late, for a > release which is already pretty stuffed with features. Who's the Tcl/Tk > maintainer? > > Oh, worth noting that probably the biggest Tcl-using app is amsn. You > can patch amsn 0.97.2 to more or less work with 8.6, but it still had a > few issues. In the end I just bumped MDV to current SVN amsn instead, on > the recommendation of upstream, which has rather a lot of nice new > features anyway. Speaking of Tcl/Tk, does anyone know whether Tcl 8.6 is backward compatible with 8.5? From my experience, 8.5 *appears* to be backward compatible with 8.4: a graphics library for this Scheme dialect I use, Chez, comes as a binary compiled against Tk 8.4, and symlinking gets it to run just fine. If 8.4 apps run fine on 8.5 and 8.6, perhaps we could add the necessary symlinks. Thanks, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
