Re: [Tcllib-devel] Trouble for Tcl 8.2/8.3, 64bit machines, seeking solution

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

Andreas Kupries wrote:
> (1)	The packages currently declares Tcl 8.2 as their minium version.
> 	Move that up to Tcl 8.4.
>
> 	Disadvantage. Users of Tcl 8.2 on still wide-spread 32bit machines
> 	cannot use the packages any longer, at least not without editing
> 	the 'package require Tcl' statement.
>
> 	On the other hand, Tcl 8.2 is how old now ?
>
> (2)	Like above, but make the Tcl 8.4 requirement dependent on detecting
> 	execution on a 64-bit machine (via tcl_platform(wordSize)).
>
> Other ideas ? Preferences ? (I am currently favoring (2)).
>   

tcl_platform(wordSize) also requires Tcl 8.4

That leaves (1) as your only option.

DGP