Re: [TCLCORE] Pain points as a distro maintainer

[Donald P. <d.g...@co...>]

> On Aug 13, 2025, at 8:17 AM, Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Op di 12 aug 2025 om 19:01 schreef Ashok:
>> As for thread, I committed a
>> branch thread9-for-tcl8 in the thread repository that builds (and passes the
>> test suite for whatever that's worth) with both Tcl 8 and Tcl 9. I am not
>> entirely sure why that was not done to begin with but I believe based on the
>> discussion at the last meet, the issue was not so much with 8.6
>> compatibility but with earlier versions. If there are no objections from
>> anyone, it can be merged into the main branch of thread. I'm not sure if
>> that is too late to help you but in any case, I don't think you need to
>> worry about needing a separate 8/9 ports for every extension. They may of
>> course have to be installed in separate directories as most pkgIndex files
>> are not written to choose the appropriate shared library to load.
> Indeed, that was the work still missing. Completed now:
>     <https://core.tcl-lang.org/thread/info/c339140d1c367beb>
> With this, "make dist", and unpacking the archive in a 8.6,
> 9.0 or 9.1 environment all work ;-)
> 
> Limiting thread 3 to Tcl 9.x made some code cleanups
> possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise. You simply
> put back the compatibility stuff for Tcl 8.6, which is fine.
> 
> Since the work is done, we might as well provide it
> to people who want it. Why not?

Do you wish to merge this to trunk so that Thread 3.0.4 (or 3.1 ?) supports Tcl 8.6 ?

After that I could revise the Tcl 8.6.17 release to bundle both Thread 2,8,12 and Thread 3.0.4

DGP