Re: [TCLCORE] Notes of biweekly telco of 2025-05-05

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Am 06.05.2025 um 09:59 schrieb Schelte Bron:
> On 06/05/2025 09:42, Ashok Nadkarni via Tcl-Core wrote:
>>    - [Better error-message than "interpreter uses an incompatible stubs
>> mechanism"](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/tktview/fc3509)
> 
> Looking in detail at this fix, I see that it just always reports that 
> "this extension is compiled for Tcl 8.x" when it encounters an 
> incompatible stubs mechanism. While that is currently the only reason 
> this could happen, I can imagine that at some point in the future there 
> may be a Tcl 10 with yet another change to the stubs mechanism. Loading 
> an extension compiled for Tcl 10 into Tcl 9 would then also give the 
> (misleading) indication that the extension was compiled for Tcl 8.x.
Schelte,
great observations!
Please consider to reopen the ticket and put the comment there.
And consider to provide a better patch.

Thanks for all !
Harald