svn commit: r308158 - in head: . lang lang/tcl82 x11-toolkits x11-toolkits/tk82

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 11:07:40AM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 10:49 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > Author: gahr
> > Date: Mon Dec  3 16:49:48 2012
> > New Revision: 308158
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/308158
> > 
> > Log:
> >   - Retire Tcl/Tk 8.2 now that the last consumer (deskutils/abacus) has gone
> >   - Fix typo in previous commit in MOVED
> >   
> >   Feature safe:	yes
> > 
> 
> 
> I take issue with retiring a library/language port with such short
> notice like this, since no other ports depend on it. This certainly
> could live on as a leaf port and still be useful.
> 
Except that tcl82 is no more supported upstream and there is an infrastructure
behind a language with multiple version like this meaning you have to test if
any of the tcl related software work with it or not, better less version of a
language with good support that all the version but badly supported/tested imho.

regards,
Bapt
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