[gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl

[gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl

[justin]

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Hi all,

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...?

Lets discuss this.

One simple question, I was asked by a user, should the header
directories should be somehow generalized?

/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

This would simplify cases where the buildsystem has hardcoded paths.

Justin


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Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 08:52 Mon 06 Dec     , justin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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...?
> 
> Lets discuss this.
> 
> One simple question, I was asked by a user, should the header
> directories should be somehow generalized?
> 
> /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
> 
> This would simplify cases where the buildsystem has hardcoded paths.

Don't the directories reflect tcl "ABIs", not just some kind of 
arbitrary version?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Science Team
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl

[justin]

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On 06/12/10 17:14, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 08:52 Mon 06 Dec     , justin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 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...?
>>
>> Lets discuss this.
>>
>> One simple question, I was asked by a user, should the header
>> directories should be somehow generalized?
>>
>> /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
>>
>> This would simplify cases where the buildsystem has hardcoded paths.
> 
> Don't the directories reflect tcl "ABIs", not just some kind of 
> arbitrary version?
> 

They do as far as I understand. But as we do not slot them, we could
take care with depending on a certain version, if not every version is
suitable.



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