Re: [Tcllib-devel] Tcl 8.2 support

[Gerald W. L. <Ger...@co...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> Lars Hellström wrote:
>   
>> I can understand a policy of "don't make any changes to patches, or 
>> otherwise restrain your coding style, just for the sake of preserving 
>> compatibility with Tcl 8.x if x<4". I can also understand not wanting 
>> to entertain old Tcl versions just for the sake of testing tcllib 
>> releases, in the hope that someone, somewhere might appreciate it.
>>
>> On the other hand, denying the actual compatibility level of a piece of 
>> software feels rather artificial.
>>
>> Is the catch the uncertainty factor: that one can _presume_ a package 
>> works with Tcl 8.2 based on the features it uses, but won't really 
>> _know_ whether this is the case until having tested it on an actual Tcl 
>> 8.2 interpreter?
>>     
>
> This is the primary reason.  Unless someone else is secretly doing it, 
> tcllib hasn't been tested against anything below 8.4 in a long time.  We 
> also want to use 8.4 tcltest features in the test suite now.
>
> We have had issues where 8.4-isms crept into code that claimed to be 
> "8.2-compliant" and somebody noticed.  I contend that those people can 
> live with old bits if they want to live with old Tcl versions, and that 
> we should simply not encumber ourselves with development of tcllib to 
> anything prior to 8.4
Agreed, lets set 8.4 as the base and move on.

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| Gerald W. Lester                                                       |
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