Re: [TCLCORE] Petition to TCT! Drop 8.7 and focus on 9.0

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

Op za 21 jan. 2023 om 19:20 schreef Brian Griffin:

> If Tcl8.6+Tk8.7 works, then let's move on.
>

 Tcl 8.6 with Tk 8.7 almost works, there is one pitfall:
      Tk 8.7 depends on TIP #430. If you run Tk 8.7
      with Tcl 8.6, it cannot find //zipfs:/lib/tk/tk_library
      any more. You can unpack the Tk library scripts to
      <prefix>/lib/tk8.7, then Tk 8.7 will run with Tcl 8.6,
      but Tk 8.7's current "make install" doesn't do that.

Op zo 22 jan. 2023 om 18:21 schreef Kevin Walzer:

> When discussion on all of this was going on a few years ago, the
> consensus was to prioritize Tcl 9.0 but offer 8.7 because not all
> members of the community would want to immediately adopt a language
> version that has a number of changes that break backwards compatibility.


+1.

Thanks, Kevin, for your summary, and for pointing to Python as
the model here. Fully agreed!

Hope this helps,
        Jan Nijtmans