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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:46:48PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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?

Dunno what you mean by this.

Kris