Re: [TCLCORE] Tk Aqua future on Tiger

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

dg...@ni... skrev:
> With Patch 2794032 applied and a Tk 8.5.8 release
> containing it, then a script application that needed
> to continue to support Tiger could do so with a
> 
>    package require Tk 8.5.0-8.6
> 
> when the app detects it is running on Tiger and just
> 
>    package require Tk 8.5.0
> 
> in other environments.  The special requirement for
> Tiger is only necessary as protection against a Tk 8.6
> that might somehow get installed on a Tiger system
> even though it doesn't work there.

Surely protection against *that* should be the responsibility of the 
package indexing system rather than each and every application. It's 
just a matter of making the Tk_Init of a CocoaTk 8.6 throw an error 
when called under 10.4, is it not?

Lars Hellström