Upgrade of itcl breaks tkdesk

J. Chris Coppick jchris at znet.com
Mon Dec 15 12:31:07 PST 2003


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Andy Sparrow wrote:
| (jchris, maintainer of 'tkdesk' added to Cc: list)
|

Thanks, Andy.

| [...]
|
| It's obviously not my decision to take, but I regret to say that I tend
| to the view that it is probably best for -ports as a whole to update
| 'itcl' to 8.4 if the only thing holding it back is the 'tkdesk' port.
|
| This would leave 'tkdesk' broken, to be updated as/when possible. I
| might be mistaken, but I don't think it's worked on Linux since they
| went to 8.3 - and that *BSD is the only place where 'tkdesk' has worked
| for quite some time.
|

Due to other professional/personal responsibilities and interests on my
part, combined with a lack of serious contributors, TkDesk can be
considered, at best, dormant if not completely dead.  I'd been planning
to seek another maintainer(s), or, lacking success at that, to
officially mothball the project.  Sadly, I couldn't even be bothered to
make the time necessary to do that small task (mea culpa).

Having said that...  Recently I have had some extra time and have been
considering a release that would at least bring TkDesk in line with
Tcl 8.4+.  However, I certainly would not recommend that anyone hold
back any releases/upgrades based on that slim possibility.

Unfortunately, my recommendation is to leave TkDesk behind and, in the
process, heap as much shame on me as possible, in hopes that the
crushing burden of guilt will eventually squeeze out some sort of
constructive action on my part.

Sincerely,

	Chris

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