Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

[Garth C. <gc...@ab...>]

On May 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Cory Helfrich wrote:

> On May 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Michal Rudolf wrote:
>>
>> Wasn't Scid compiled separately for Mac or FreeBSD?
> No. I have not seen a working scid installation package for Mac yet.
> I must compile scid from the source files to install it.
Well, it's true that there hasn't been an installable binary for Mac,  
but I have been doing some work to that end.  In fact I can build one  
today that will work for the majority of cases.  Going to 8.5 would  
render most of that work useless and  delay making a Mac binary  
available.

I'm in agreement with Alexander that it is premature to be moving in  
that direction yet.  At least for a stable branch.  Also, Pascal, I  
think you may be underestimating the cost of a merge.  If everything  
goes according to plan, sure, it might be that easy, but it will take  
some effort to make sure that the branches do not diverge and that any  
changes in support of the new widgets do not conflict with existing  
code.  It's not impossible by any means but merges can be painful.

>
>>
>> While I understand your concerns as proposed solution isn't
>> elegant, I don't
>> think most users care. They much prefer nicer, easier to use GUI than
>> perfectly clean installation.
> I hate to be a "naysayer", but, given the above choice, I would vote
> for the perfectly clean installation with the existing GUI.
>
I second this.  I hate to be even more of a naysayer but if you really  
want a nice GUI for scid it seems that reworking some of the existing  
UI with 8.4 would give more usability improvements.  Ditching Tk  
altogether (a ton of work) would give even more.