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

[Marcela Maslanova]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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
> 
Yes, I read it.
> 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?
Some packages work with enabled threading. Also tcl8.4 was built with 
thread support and users will be disappointed when their application 
refuse to work ;-)


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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno