Tcl 8.6 (was Re: Ready for new RPM version?)

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 16:28 +0100, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
> Michel Salim wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> You are joking right? Tcl 8.5 and 8.4 have a lot of differences. The worst
> >> of them is #483836 which can be hardly fixed. Tcl has released 8.6b1 which
> >> won't be in F-11 for sure. I'm waiting for stable release. The list of
> >> dependencies could be found here:
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tcl8.5. Details about tcl versions
> >> could be found here: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/choose.html
> > 
> > Uh, thanks. That looks to be quite a problem indeed. Actually, the
> > lack of threading might explain some of the bugs I see with Chez
> > Scheme's graphics module.
> > 
> > Will 8.6 be compiled with threading support for F-12?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> I don't know if it will be with thread support.
> 
> There will be probably two or three beta version, which I will try.

In Mandriva we actually had threading support for a while and then I was
specifically asked to disable it as it causes a substantial problem with
Expect:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42596

as per the rather substantial discussion both in that report and in the
associated upstream conversation:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/805731c32f53c4b7

it was determined that building with threading really doesn't help
anything much. So, as mentioned in that bug, I disabled threading in the
MDV build.

Why did want you want to have threading enabled?
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