Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6b1 Release Candidates

[Twylite <tw...@cr...>]

Hi,
> I don't plan to hold actual release of 8.6b1 just for discovered bugs,
> but if there's some total failure to build on some platform or in some
> configuration, lets please find and fix that.
Win XP SP3:
- builds with MSVC 2008, runs without crashing, fails 4 tests.
- builds with MSVC 6, runs without crashing, fails 5 tests.

Problems:
- It is not possible to build TDBC on Windows in a pure-MS environment 
(i.e. you need msys or cygwin to run configure).  I think this is a problem.

Questions (that I may better understand...):
- Why is zlib under compat/, libtommath under /, and tdbc under pkgs?  
Shouldn't these have very similar treatment in the location in the 
source tree?
- Does tdbc build and install automatically as part of a standard Tcl 
build on other platforms (incl. Win + cygwin)?  If not, shouldn't this 
be the case?

Regards,
Twylite