Re: [MACTCL] Drop Carbon support from Tk-Aqua?

[Steve L. <st...@di...>]

On 25/09/2012, at 8:51 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison <br...@ma...> wrote:

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> On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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>> After extensive discussion on the Tcl-Core mailing list, we've done a 
>> full merge of the Tk-Cocoa backport into the main branch of Tk 8.5, so 
>> that it will more closely track development in 8.6 and not require the 
>> complexity of maintaining a separate branch. Going forward, Tk 8.5 as 
>> well as Tk 8.6 will be based on Cocoa.
> 
> Cool, thanks for the efforts!
> 
>> As a result of this, the question of what to do with the older Carbon 
>> version of Tk--in both 8.5 and 8.6--has arisen.
> 
> Kill it.  It's a dead-end development path, a distraction, unnecessary complexity, and will consume limited resources to keep it preserved in any capacity.  Revision control holds what got removed if someone needs it.
> 
>> Comments are not only welcome but invited. If there is a clear 
>> constituency for keeping the Carbon port around, we need to be aware of 
>> that.
> 
> Putting on a project management hat, Tk (and Tcl to a lesser degree) really needs all the help it can to increase development velocity.  That means reducing overhead, eliminating redundancies, reducing complexity, and employing time-savory refactorings.  Getting rid of the Carbon code does that wholesale and lets efforts be rightly focused on the Cocoa work going forward.  It's an all-around win. 

+1

Steve