Tcl/Tk 8.4 deprecation

Joseph Mingrone jrm at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 5 12:14:42 UTC 2017


Pietro Cerutti <gahr at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Hi all,

> I'll be shorty deprecating Tcl/Tk 8.4 in our ports tree. The latest
> release of this series was 8.4.20 (June 2013).
> Tcl/Tk series 8.5 and 8.6 are fully supported, and 8.7 is coming
> soon-ish.

> Thus, I will soon mark the following ports as DEPRECATED, with expiry
> date sometimes this fall. If you care for any of them, please try to
> upgrade them to a newer version (if any) or make them work with Tcl 8.6,
> which is the current default version. If you need any support in the
> process, please let me know and I'll be glad to help.

> lang/fpc-tcl
> lang/itcl
> lang/smalltalk
> lang/tcl84
> multimedia/nxtvepg
> games/scid
> games/polypuzzle
> graphics/ocaml-lablgl
> graphics/gdtclft
> databases/pgaccess
> math/R
> math/maxima
> editors/tpad
> x11-toolkits/ocaml-labltk
> x11-toolkits/tk84
> devel/vtcl
> x11-clocks/tktz
> net/xpvm
> x11/tkXwin

> Best,

Hi Pietro,

I will update math/R to pull in a newer version of Tcl/Tk, so no need to
mark it as deprecated.

Regards,

Joseph
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