Re: tcl/tk 9.0?

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On Friday, 27 December 2024 at 14:45, ci4ic4 <ci4ic4%proton.me@localhost> wrote:

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> On Friday, 27 December 2024 at 12:20, Thomas Klausner wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 07:11:33AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> > > Another question is why we have tcl85 still. I don't mean to be
> > > deletionist, really just asking if there are packages that need it. If
> > > so, that's a clue that tcl/tk have enough API stability issues that
> > > continuing to version is likely needed.
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> > We have one user of lang/tcl85 in pkgsrc - x11/tk85.
> > We have no users of x11/tk85 in pkgsrc.
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> FWIW I pushed wip/tcl9, a crude mod of some of lang/tcl's after a url2pkg. I haven't ported any of the patches from the original, it (almost) builds for me under -current NetBSD amd64 without any. The only problem I am having is that for some reason it fails to build unix/tclsh itself, after building all the .o files and the libraries, so I have to manually (cd work/tcl9.0/unix && make) to complete the build; I couldn't figure out this.
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> Subsequently the tests pass:
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> Tests ended at Fri Dec 27 13:45:26 GMT 2024
> all.tcl: Total 143 Passed 127 Skipped 16 Failed 0
> Sourced 0 Test Files.
> Number of tests skipped for each constraint:
> 8 have_gdbm
> 8 have_lmdb
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I tested it under aarch64 with the same result.

> I'll try tk9 later.
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> Chavdar