Re: [TCLCORE] Merging TkAqua Cocoa port into Tk HEAD

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As one of the loudest complainers about the compat issue, my heartfelt 
thanks.  If santa needs to bring you a new laptop (or whatever), his
email is lm...@bi....

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:10:34PM +0200, Daniel A. Steffen wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:43, Daniel A.
> Steffen<da...@us...> wrote:
> > The Cocoa port has now been feature complete for about a month and I
> > believe is of equal or better quality than the existing TkAqua
> > implementation, it has been built, tested and is already being used
> > successfully by various parties, and IMO is now ready to be merged
> > into the Tk mainline.
> 
> the TkAqua Cocoa merge has now been committed
> 
> 	http://fisheye.categorifiedcoder.info/changelog/Tk?cs=MAIN:das:20090629143501
> 
> sorry for the delay, it took longer than expected to find time for the
> buildsystem modifications needed to make the legacy implementation a
> configure option: indeed, given the reactions to my initial plan to
> drop pre-10.5 support completely, I have now preserved the legacy
> tk/macosx codebase in the new tk/carbon directory. The --enable-aqua
> Tk configure flag turns on the new Cocoa implementation by default,
> use --enable-aqua=carbon to fallback to the Carbon implementation.
> 
> As announced previously, I will however not continue to maintain the
> Carbon code on HEAD (except possibly for parallel application of Tk
> 8.5 bugfixes), I have included the warning below in the
> tk/carbon/README to make this explicit (if a new maintainer for this
> code were to step forward, they can of course amend that statement as
> they see fit).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> --
> ** Daniel A. Steffen                   **
> ** <mailto:da...@us...>  **
> 
> 
> Tcl/TkAqua Carbon Mac OS X README
> ---------------------------------
> 
> RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1 2009/06/26 01:42:46 das Exp $
> 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ! This is the README for tk/carbon, the legacy version of TkAqua based on the  !
> ! Carbon API. This version of TkAqua is deprecated and no longer actively      !
> ! supported, it will be removed in a future release of Tk. It is only useful   !
> ! for users requiring support of Mac OS X releases older than 10.5.            !
> ! The supported version of TkAqua is located in tk/macosx and is based on the  !
> ! Cocoa API. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.                               !
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
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