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tcl-core
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 | 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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