From: Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...> - 2002-10-22 23:52:01
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Jeff, On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 08:54 AM, Jeff Hobbs wrote: > 8.4.1 has already been stamped, as I noted previously based on the > timeline I sent to tcl-core. I'm sorry if not everything made it > in that Daniel wanted (I didn't put in the -readonly fix ... made > me too nervous right before release), no worries, that was a wise decision, building it should probably be tested on more platforms that have chflags available... Also there is a encoding issue with OStype remaining that I need to fix; after Jim found problems, I pretty much gave up on getting this into 8.4.1 anyway, the question remains if this change needs a TIP since it adds to file attributes on platforms other than OSX (of course it could be restricted to OSX only , but I thought it might be nice to have access to chflags from tcl on other unices where it's available as well) > but these could be added now to the core and then the Mac release > could be cut from that. I've already addded 8.3.5 installers for mac classic to the SF 8.3.5 release, I'll try to do 8.4.1 mac classic asap, and after that I'll look at building a 8.4.1 distro for OSX. If I have time to fix the encoding problem by then, the file attributes patch could potentially go in. Cheers, Daniel -- ** Daniel A. Steffen ** "And now to something completely ** Dept. of Mathematics ** different" Monty Python ** Macquarie University ** <mailto:st...@ma...> ** NSW 2109 Australia ** <http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/> |