Re: [Tile-dev] Heads up -- upcoming changes

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

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
>> It would be a good thing if tile could still be built as a shared lib 
>> even
>> when placed in the tk source tree. If you have read about my tclkit
>> adventures here and elsewhere you understand my motivitaion.
>> There can be reasons to use tile in earlier versions than 8.4.12?, 8.5b1?
> 
> 
> The only on-the-table plan for integrating Tile and Tk is a scheme for
> co-distribution. I see no reason for necessarily having Tk and Ttk
> widgets in the same library, just as I see no reason for having Tk in
> the same library as Tcl...

That is going to change, the integration will be in full for 8.5.
However, Joe has already noted that he plans to maintain an 8.4
compatible extension, which would address Mats' needs.

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