Re: [TCLCORE] The Long and Winding Road.. to 8.6.0

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

Hi,

Kevin Kenny wrote:
> Twylite wrote:
>> Please, no!  A huge amount of Tcl's value is in its ability to run 
>> cross-platform.  Windows developers (of Tcl) are already marginalised 
>> by the atrociously Windows-unfriendly GNU build system.  We can do 
>> without marginalising Windows users (of Tcl for development) on 
>> functionality as well.
> Listen to yourself: "If I can't have it on Windows, then nobody
> should have it, so the Unix support (which is already done) will
> just have to wait." Is that the sort of attitude that should
> govern the developers?
It is normal for software distributions to identify officially supported 
platforms, and to provide releases with identical (or equivalent) 
functionality on all officially supported platforms at the same time.  
To my knowledge the Tcl core has in the past followed this approach, and 
I am advocating that it continues to do so. 

Further, I understood from Reinhard's and Jeff's posts that there isn't 
a major technical impediment to Windows support.

I don't see a problem with putting ipv6 support for unix only into a 
beta release (to allow it to gain widespread testing), but I do think 
that any decision to roll out a final release with core functionality 
that supports a subset of the official platforms needs a strong 
_technical_ justification.

Regards,
Twylite