Re: Impact of updating to tcl/tk 8.5.12, tcl-expect 5.45 with 7 proposed patch sets

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:22:23PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> Here's an update on the impact status.
> latest versions of tcl, tk, and expect:
> 
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~marino/misc/tcl85-draft-6.tar.bz2
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~marino/misc/tk85-draft-3.tar.bz2
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~marino/misc/tcl-expect545-draft-2.tar.bz2
> 
> devel/py-expect:     Works with latest versions without modification
> graphics/tkpiechart: Works with latest versions without modification
> mbone/wbd:           Fixed with patch
> mbone/vat:           Fixed with patch
> www/ap-dtcl          Non-TCL85 issue, already committed fix
> cad/tkgate:          Fixed with patch
> chat/quirc:          Fixed with patch
> textproc/tcl-expat:  Fixed with patch
> net/tcl-scotty:      Fixed with patch
> net/tkined:          Built after tcl-scotty fixed
> net/net-snmp:        Built after tcl-scotty fixed

This looks really good now!

> databases/tcl-gdbm:  still broken
> print/tcl-pdflib:    still broken
> lang/tcl-otcl:       still broken, breaks 3 packages
>    net/ns
>    net/nam
>    devel/tcl-tclcl
> tcl-itcl:            still broken, breaks 1 packages
>    sysutils/tkdesk
> tcl-itcl-current:    still broken, breaks 1 packages
>    cad/tnt-mmtl
> x11/tk-Tix:          still broken, breaks 1 packages
>    net/nocol

What kind of errors do you see when building the with tcl/tk-85?

> will be removed after tcl upgraded to 8.5.12:
> lang/tcl-tclX:  (dead project, nothing depends on it except tk-tclX)
> lang/tk-tclx:   (part of dead tclX project)

It seems he@ is still interested, so perhaps keep these, broken as the
others.

> lang/tk-expect: (expectk is not built by tcl 8.5, last version is 8.4)
> 
> 
> This completes the pre-commit work that I'm going to do on TCL/TK/Expect
> I'm being pulled in too many directions and frankly I didn't have the
> time to devote this.  It took meuch longer than I anticipated.


Thank you very much for working on this!
 Thomas