Re: [Tcllib-devel] TBWidget Branch (please help on cvs organisation)

[Donald G P. <don...@ni...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
>> Concerning compatibility: I agree it is hard to keep compatible with old 
>> Tk releases. I'm really used to operators such as {*}, eq, ne,... and I 
>> don't realize anymore they only exist since Tcl 8.5. I really think we 
>> should move forward - after all bug fixing on Tk 8.4 has also stopped. 
>> People who keep using 8.4, can also keep using BWidget 1.9.

If you drop support for an older Tcl or Tk, be sure to use filtering
in the index script so that if your new BWidget release gets installed
within reach of one of those older Tcl or Tk libraries, they continue
to get the older BWidget version they can use, and not the new one that
will fail.

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