Lens with Tcl/Tk 8.4

[Jason Bacon]

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
>
>


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