Lens with Tcl/Tk 8.4

[Pietro Cerutti]

Thank you Jason,

the port has been marked for expiration on 2013-02-01, which is when
Tcl/Tk 8.3 is going to be removed.

I have set this list (tcltk@) as the temporary maintainer of this port.

Regards,

On 2012-Dec-14, 09:28, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 
> I just spent some time investigating what it will take to upgrade to 8.4 
> or later.
> 
> It looks like extensive code modification is going to be needed, and 
> given that no new version of LENS has been released in at least 5 years, 
> I'd say it's time to just drop the port.
> 
> I'll be happy to resurrect it if the developer takes a renewed interest.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>      -J
> 
> On 12/10/2012 02:31, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > Hello Jason,
> >
> > I'm contacting you as the maintainer of the math/lensnns port on
> > FreeBSD.
> >
> > We (tcltk at FreeBSD.org) are planning to expire and get rid of Tcl/Tk 8.3,
> > and math/lensnns is the last consumer in the ports tree. I have tried to
> > contact the author about the possibility to make Lens work with Tcl/Tk
> > 8.4, but emails to him bounce back (see below).
> >
> > So what I'm asking to you is, do you actively use the software on
> > FreeBSD and if it's the case, would you be able to make it work with
> > Tcl/Tk 8.4 (or higher), so that we can deprecate 8.3?
> >
> > Thanks for letting us know!
> >
> > Pietro
> > for tcltk@
> >
> > On 2012-Dec-04, 12:06, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> >> Hi Douglas,
> >>
> >> I'm part of the team maintaining Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD (tcltk at FreeBSD.org).
> >>
> >> We're planning to get rid of the long-unsupported 8.3 release series,
> >> and Lens is one of the last packages that still depends on it here.
> >>
> >> Do you have any plans to upgrade to a newer Tcl/Tk version?
> >>
> >> Thanks for letting us know!
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Pietro Cerutti
> >> The FreeBSD Project
> >> gahr at FreeBSD.org
> >>
> >> PGP Public Key:
> >> http://gahr.ch/pgp
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jason W. Bacon
> jwbacon at tds.net
> http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 

-- 
Pietro Cerutti
The FreeBSD Project
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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