RE: [tcltk-perl] RE: Re[2]: FAIL Tcl-Tk-0.80 i686-linux 2.4.18-14

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> > In any case, I'd like to encourage use of 8.4 instead, and perhaps add 
> > some warnings to that effect in Makefile.PL.  Hmmm,
> 
> Encouraging is good, but IMHO even more good making tool 
> working even with old stuff, without downloading new updates. 
> Yat I agree that supporting old versions is low priority task 
> and supporting obsolete versions is not necessary.

If they want to work with Tcl 8.3, they can use the pre-0.77 Tcl
module.  We are doing current development, and the current Tcl
release is Tcl 8.4 (has been the stable for a couple years now).

> > Soooo ... I'll probably be putting in code in the Makefile.PL and 
> > runtime stuff to force the use of 8.4.  That's actually the case
> 
> Makefile.PL should deny all configurations that not 
> supported, otherwise there will be FAIL's reports. Even not 
> warnings, just strictly denying to go further.

I have the Makefile.PL patches ready to accomodate this (throw
errors, not warnings, for any attempt to build against pre-8.4
versions of Tcl).

Jeff