Thanks Alexander! I will try your /local/opt/tmp/stuff suggestion.
As to your closing remark: Sure enough, but I meant to ask whether there are any other troubles when using scid that are caused by tcl/tk 8.5 flaws. Or is the file selection dialog the only one (as far as you guys have noticed; the one spotted by me was apparently already known to Pascal)? Joost. On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 05:40 +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Joost ´t Hart wrote: > > Hi! > > > Hm, ectl is at 8.5.6 something. > > > > Ubuntu (intrepid) seems to be at 8.5.3-3. > > > > Anyone who knows a validated track around this? > > Well... > > cat *.pgn > new.pgn > > and use new.pgn > > > I am not really willing > > to replace my native stuff with true externals. Never know what exactly > > will happen then. > > Usually, you could install such a distribution to /usr/local/ and given > your path is pointing there first it should use that distribution and > ignore the systems supplied version. I'd recommend stow to handle it > (ie. install to /usr/local/stow/... and let stow handle the links to > /usr/local subdirs.) > > You could also use some /opt/etcl/8.5.6 to keep it entirely outside your > usual paths and just use it for scid by means of a simple startup > wrapper that contains something like > > #!/bin/bash > export PATH=/opt/etcl/8.5.6/bin:$PATH > exec scid > > I'd recommend the latter in case you run some critical apps on your > system or if security issues get involved as the usual TCL setup then > still would get the fixes from your distribution. (However, one might > argue that in this case Ubuntu is surely not the first choice anyway.) > > But you're right, all this is not really a solution, and only hope is > that the tcl-people will fix this. > > > Any other known scid-related flaws that I should be aware of? > > Its not a Scid problem it's a TCL bug in 8.5.x. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
