From: Andreas K. <and...@ac...> - 2013-03-27 18:45:48
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Joe English <jen...@fl...> wrote: > Donald G Porter wrote: >> [...concerning recent stubs table monkey business on tk core-8-5-branch...] > I am 110% in agreement with DGP here. >> The immediate issue is whether to keep or scrap or defer the recent >> core-8-5-branch checkins. This is a fundamental difference on the > Scrap it. Trying to make Tk 8.5.* behave like Tk 8.6.* > if it happens to be [load]ed into a Tcl 8.6.* interp > is not just counterproductive, it is *actively harmful*. I concur on all points. At least one harm I see is the raised code-complexity making the code more difficult to understand, thus maintenance more difficult, and easier to introduce bugs. I have trouble imagining an actual use-case for this. -- Andreas Kupries Senior Tcl Developer Code to Cloud: Smarter, Safer, Faster™ F: 778.786.1133 and...@ac... http://www.activestate.com Learn about Stackato for Private PaaS: http://www.activestate.com/stackato GSoC 2013 - Tcl Ideas @ http://wiki.tcl.tk/36464 Tcl'2013, Sep 23-27, New Orleans, LA, USA @ http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2013/ EuroTcl'2013, July 6-7, Munich, GER |