Gentoo Archives: gentoo-science

From: justin <jlec@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:23:10
Message-Id: 4CFD1BD1.2090800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Science Meeting - Status of tcl by Donnie Berkholz
1 On 06/12/10 17:14, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 08:52 Mon 06 Dec , justin wrote:
3 >> Hi all,
4 >>
5 >> the tcl herd is more or less dead. As there a many sci apps which rely
6 >> on tcl/tk, the question is, how we should deal with this? Contribute,
7 >> take over...?
8 >>
9 >> Lets discuss this.
10 >>
11 >> One simple question, I was asked by a user, should the header
12 >> directories should be somehow generalized?
13 >>
14 >> /usr/include/tcl8.5 -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9
15 >> /usr/include/tcl8 -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9
16 >> /usr/include/tcl -> /usr/include/tcl8.5.9
17 >>
18 >> This would simplify cases where the buildsystem has hardcoded paths.
19 >
20 > Don't the directories reflect tcl "ABIs", not just some kind of
21 > arbitrary version?
22 >
23
24 They do as far as I understand. But as we do not slot them, we could
25 take care with depending on a certain version, if not every version is
26 suitable.

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