Why so many tcl's and tk's

[Martin Tournoij]

On Wed 14 Mar 2007 01:03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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

It seems most ports work fine with tcl84, and that tcl<84 deps are
historical rather than technical (no one looked if the ports works
with tcl84).

Anyway, I started working on this.