agc@pkgsrc.org said:
> And, lest we get into commit wars... 

As a matter of principle, I keep out of any flame-/commit-/whatever wars.
I'm going to leave that stuff alone, at least until the freeze is over.

> I didn't see any mail from Matthias asking
> whether it would be OK to disable tcl and tk's threading

There was one, to tech-pkg last week, with subject
"Python and threaded Tcl/Tk".

best regards
Matthias