Why so many tcl's and tk's

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Mar 14 05:49:00 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> >>Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards compatible 
> >>with earlier versions?
> >
> >
> >No, they are not.
> 
> What a pity.  So how come the various linux distributions seem to get 
> away with only one version of tcl and tk?

Probably the various incompatibilities are usually minor, so someone
with basic knowledge of tcl/tk can forward-port the legacy code to the
latest version.  I'd be happy if someone were to do this for FreeBSD,
at least for the older tcl/tk versions.

Kris


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