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 1PPemK-0004j4-EI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:23:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D4DCE0698; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59067E0698 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from paul.ibi.kfa-juelich.de (ibi109.ibi.kfa-juelich.de [134.94.85.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jlec) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 63D671B4060; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4CFD1BD1.2090800@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:22:25 +0100 From: justin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.6 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 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl References: <4CFC9633.5000802@gentoo.org> <20101206161359.GD13981@comet.mayo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20101206161359.GD13981@comet.mayo.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF6FA858AEE979BB322365ED5" X-Archives-Salt: 2b62b92a-7343-4f40-92a8-1c56039457e2 X-Archives-Hash: 5b9e5159c3e94e5f947930bcf6b3de4e This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF6FA858AEE979BB322365ED5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Don't the directories reflect tcl "ABIs", not just some kind of=20 > arbitrary version? >=20 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. --------------enigF6FA858AEE979BB322365ED5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz9G9EACgkQgAnW8HDreRatxQCZAYsYumZylTZecXQnBqVdWgly LoQAoJJojW7T3QIETSkVHNd9LBBo6mfJ =629T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF6FA858AEE979BB322365ED5--