Stephen Borrill<netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> writes:
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
I'm conflicted about this. If vic/vat/etc. aren't sufficiently alive to
have new versions that work with 8.5, then it's not really reasonable to
hold up a tcl update, or to make the person who wants to update tcl
create 84 packages and move mbone tools to them.
On the other end, these are historic tools that I remember using ~20
years ago, and it feels against the BSD tradition to toss them
uncerominously.