Re: [Tcllib-devel] Tcllib 1.21 Release To Come, And Further

[Evan R. <er...@uv...>]

On 2022-04-26 03:53, Andreas Kupries wrote:
> And looking beyond 1.21 my plan is to have a larger cleanup, as in:
>
>    1. Even Tcl 8.5 is end of life for oever 6 years now (8.5.19 was 2016-02-12).
>       Let alone 8.4 and older.
>       Some of the packages in Tcllib still declare 8.2 as min requirement/
>
>       I want to declare everything before 8.6 as unsupported now.
>       There was enough time to switch.
>
>       That will make development much easier as there is no need to
>       think about if a command, function, syntax is supported by the
>       declared min-version of the package, or not. Recently seen with a
>       patch using the `max` function. Does not exist in 8.4.

Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 uses tcl 8.5

Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 is a supported product through 2024, and with 
extended support until 2026.
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

If there isn't a technical reason to increase the minimum tcl 
requirement can I request that a minimum of 8.5 be used until 2026?


Thanks for the consideration.

Evan Rempel