Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Michal Rudolf
Garth Corral, czwartek, 22 maja 2008: >I'm afraid Fink (or macports) isn't going to help with this particular >mess and only serves to complicate the issue on OS X somewhat. > >Even if Fink would build tk 8.5 for you (there was no 8.5 listed when >I checked), it will most likely build you an X11

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Unfortunatley, I'm almost alone with the idea to use the > enterprise versions as basis, though. (Where I think Debian > stable is just a lower limit point everyone can meet > easily. For me this is a good thing.) For this reason I > think

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > I thought Fink was supposed to take care of this kind of mess. Is > it not ? > I'm afraid Fink (or macports) isn't going to help with this particular mess and only serves to complicate the issue on OS X somewhat. Even if Fink would buil

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/5/22 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Garth Corral, czwartek, 22 maja 2008: > > >I don't think its an issue of one or the other. I can't speak to the > >case of the options menu but I think there are at least as many > >instances as not where cleaning up the UI would not add a step to t

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > I thought Fink was supposed to take care of this kind of > mess. Is it not ? Fink cares about this, as any other decent packaging system. If you build a binary, you'd add the proper version to the requirements as "minimum". Say you build a scid binary for Tcl/Tk

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I thought Fink was supposed to take care of this kind of mess. Is it not ? If not, how about releasing a stable version (with tk 8.4) and a development one (with 8.5) ? I would deem reworking 8.4 without using new 8.5 ineffective only if reworking with 8.4 had not already been done.

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! >> I don't think its an issue of one or the other. I can't >> speak to the case of the options menu but I think there >> are at least as many instances as not where cleaning up >> the UI would not add a step to the migration to 8.5 >> because there would be no new widgets offered by 8.5

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Michal Rudolf wrote: > Garth Corral, czwartek, 22 maja 2008: > >> I don't think its an issue of one or the other. I can't speak to the >> case of the options menu but I think there are at least as many >> instances as not where cleaning up the UI would not add a ste

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Michal Rudolf
Garth Corral, czwartek, 22 maja 2008: >I don't think its an issue of one or the other. I can't speak to the >case of the options menu but I think there are at least as many >instances as not where cleaning up the UI would not add a step to the >migration to 8.5 because there would be no new widg

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > > > Cleaning this stuff up to make a consistent and more > > standard UI would be effort better spent, and would not > > preclude moving to a newer tk version later. > > I agree here. > > I don't. I prefer a single step : more time efficie

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/5/22 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a thought here: IMHO it would greatly improve the > usablity already if the settings menue is reworked to a > dialog based interface that collects the various submenu > items into single dialogs. I think e.g. about > Options/Chessboard and all