On 27-Feb-00 Chuck Robey wrote:
> fine example, tho. We break the location of the config files that all
> tcl
> packages rely upon to build, for the purpose of allowing folks to run
> multiple versions simultaneously. Tcl isn't the only one like that,
> either. Anyone who wants to be able to build other tcl software that
> isn't derived from a port would be well advised to avoid using our port.
This is done because none of those programs/libs developed a system on
their own which allowed multiple versions to be on the same machine OR
made SURE that they where backward compatible..
Its not the ports collection thats at fault, the people who did it this
way are cleaning up the mess made by other coders.
This happens for tcl, gtk, qt.. There are quite a number. (at least 3! ;)
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
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