Fwd: Why so many tcl's and tk's

[Garrett Cooper]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu>
> Date: March 13, 2007 3:48:56 PM PDT
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's
>
> 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?

Better versioning in their package infrastructure?

-Garrett