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

[Andreas K. <and...@gm...>]

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:27 AM Evan Rempel <er...@uv...> wrote:
> 
> > 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?

> I'd contend that the last few Tcllib releases would be pretty dodgy against
> 8.5, and package authors are likely to have overlooked updating the Tcl
> version dependency. I surely don't think you can expect many packages
> actually to have been tested against such an old release. Andreas could
> probably recover information about when Tcllib's release process stopped
> testing on 8.5.

I actually still test Tcllib release RCs against 8.5.
8.4 even.

Specifically
	8.4.20
	8.5.19
	8.6.10
	8.7.a4 (*)


(*) Just to look ahead for possible issues.
    Failures there are not blockers and not acted on.

-- 
Happy Tcling,
	Andreas Kupries <and...@gm...>
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