Dave, This sounds like a not unreasonable solution (having 2 sets of tcl/expect packages). I can see that there might be a confusion factor for newbies, so it would be good to get a few more opinions.
If it is acceptable, I would happily contribute/maintain the TCL 8.5, expect 5.45 packages. regards, Craig... On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Dave <iamd...@glidefree.com> wrote: > On 10/26/2011 3:27 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> After chatting with Craig I dug the archives and >> I presume the main issue is how to upgrade tcl/tk >> and all the packages that depend froms it >> assuming that everything works and nothing is broken. >> The problem was already mentioned long time ago >> > I hope this isn't a dumb question... > > Since TCL is designed to support multiple versions installed simultaneously, > and there are already quite a few Cygwin packages that have dependencies on > various versions of libraries, why not have a new TCL85 and EXPECT545 > packages? Just leave all the other packages that depend on TCL8.4 alone? > Perhaps Mr. Miller would volunteer to be the Cygwin package owner for these > two new packages. Even if he were to abandon support, the situation would be > better since we'd have >much< more modern versions of TCL/EXPECT for Cygwin. > > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
