* Sergei Golovan [Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:37:09 +0400]:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All three Tcl/Tk versions work good if they are installed simultaneously. So,
> there's no reason to install only one of them. Though 8.3 isn't removed from
> the archive only because of some weird problem with 8.4 during gcc testing
> on hppa architecture, so intalling it isn't desirable.
> But 8.4 and 8.5 may be installed together.
Yes, I know that they may be installed together, but...
> tk8.4 is the default because we couldn't test all packages depending on
> Tcl/Tk in time. It wouldn't be great to release broken things. But if the
> package works fine with 8.5 then it's perfectly OK to depend on tk8.5
> and use wish8.5 as an interpreter.
No, it's not "perfectly OK", and the reason is that it unnecessarily
bloats the user's system with extra versions of packages when one would
be enough.
Cheers,
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