Re: Linux binary? (Tkined)

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:30:40 +0200

david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) said:

David> What don't you like about it? I haven't really looked into the
David> problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the advantages/disadvantages of
David> his proposal.

John proposed to change the way the auto_path is used. He did not
define an additional directory that is included in the auto_path and
independent of the Tcl version. So every extension is automatically
bound to the Tcl version - something I dislike.

David> I would be prepared to change it. If I rebuilt scotty to use Tcl7.6
David> instead of Tcl7.5, I would be changing it anyways. As things stand
David> now, I don't think either solution (modifying files in an installed
David> TCL package or requiring users to set TCLLIBPATH) is acceptible for
David> Debian.

Yes, the current situation is nasty. Choose a solution you like for
Debian since we can't predict how Tcl7.6 will solve this problem.

Juergen

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