Re: Any issue with upgrading lang/tcl to 8.5.12 ?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, John Marino wrote:
> I've been requested to update a package that requires a minimum version of 
> TCL as 8.5.0.  This is not entirely unreasonable given that 8.5.0 was 
> released in December, 2007, nearly 6 years ago.
>
> pkgsrc is still on the 8.4 series of lang/tcl.
> Is there any reason we can't or shouldn't upgrade?
> I'm asking before I attempt it in case there's some background info I don't 
> know.

You must  ensure that packages that use tcl/tk still work. For 
instance, the mbone tools: vic, vat, rat, wbd

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Stephen