Subject: Re: Python and threaded Tcl/Tk
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Marc Recht <marc@geht.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/10/2004 00:34:38
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> I'd prefer (1) for now because it looks least invasive;
> the other options require more work than the freeze
> allows.

Me too.

> Once Tcl/Tk is threaded by default we need another
> solution. In the long term, (3) is probably the way
> to go, but as long as NetBSD-1.6 is supported by pkgsrc
> we shouldn't force people to use GNU pth where not
> absolutely necessary.

My opinion is that Python should always be built threaded (since it's
the default ;-)) since all pkgsrc supported operation systems except
NetBSD 1.6 have native threading support and I believe that most 1.6
pkgsrc users have pth installed anyway.

Cheers,
Marc

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