From: Pascal G. <pas...@fr...> - 2008-05-21 13:48:26
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2008/5/21 Michal Rudolf <mr...@kd...>: > Pascal Georges, środa, 21 maja 2008: > >This way of migrating to Tk 8.5 is not feasible. The best thing to do > would > >be a branch of Scid that > >will only handle UI stuff (no features), given that Scid 3.6.23+ continues > >to evolve using Tcl/Tk 8.4. Then one day a merge can be done and this > >merging is completely trivial : I guess a few hours of work, not more. > > > >Note that Tcl/Tk 8.5 does not only bring fancier scrollbars but widgets > like > >notebook or sizegrip that can benefit to Scid. Most critics to Scid are > >related to its UI, so certainly one of the most important field to > consider. > >I recently changed some of the UI of Scid Pocket, taking advantage of > Tcl/Tk > >8.5 and the changes makes Scid really nicer and even easier to use. > > One more idea: can we just provide Scid package for Linux containing Tcl > 8.5 > for those who cannot install it separately? The simplest solution is to static link , and provide Tcl packages (Img, http, tdom, etc.) : this is what I do on Windows. Pascal |