Re: [TCLCORE] Tk Aqua future on Tiger
by Lars Hellstrom other posts by this author
May 19 2009 3:31PM messages near this date
[TCLCORE] Tk Aqua future on Tiger
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Re: [TCLCORE] Tk Aqua future on Tiger
dgp@[...].gov skrev:
> With Patch 2794032 applied and a Tk 8.5.8 release
> containing it, then a script application that needed
> to continue to support Tiger could do so with a
>
> package require Tk 8.5.0-8.6
>
> when the app detects it is running on Tiger and just
>
> package require Tk 8.5.0
>
> in other environments. The special requirement for
> Tiger is only necessary as protection against a Tk 8.6
> that might somehow get installed on a Tiger system
> even though it doesn't work there.
Surely protection against *that* should be the responsibility of the
package indexing system rather than each and every application. It's
just a matter of making the Tk_Init of a CocoaTk 8.6 throw an error
when called under 10.4, is it not?
Lars Hellström
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