From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PPdhe-0006YA-AS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:14:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AB81E0789; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E43E0789 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (mayo-nat4.mayo.edu [129.176.197.23]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 863381B40DF for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:14:00 -0600 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl Message-ID: <20101206161359.GD13981@comet.mayo.edu> References: <4CFC9633.5000802@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J5MfuwkIyy7RmF4Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CFC9633.5000802@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: dd898060-639c-4a7d-90fc-988a5a365314 X-Archives-Hash: efacd473f36f504c63bfe6ed8f85f774 --J5MfuwkIyy7RmF4Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08:52 Mon 06 Dec , justin wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > the tcl herd is more or less dead. As there a many sci apps which rely > on tcl/tk, the question is, how we should deal with this? Contribute, > take over...? >=20 > Lets discuss this. >=20 > One simple question, I was asked by a user, should the header > directories should be somehow generalized? >=20 > /usr/include/tcl8.5 -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9 > /usr/include/tcl8 -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9 > /usr/include/tcl -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9 >=20 > This would simplify cases where the buildsystem has hardcoded paths. Don't the directories reflect tcl "ABIs", not just some kind of=20 arbitrary version? --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Science Team Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --J5MfuwkIyy7RmF4Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkz9C8cACgkQXVaO67S1rtsCZwCg8vJXwM/R2dRaIKzV6xoTzhCO HC8An3y7zXrnOgkGm80H+WPpzzqJFxTE =u9gv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J5MfuwkIyy7RmF4Q--