[100699] trunk/dports/lang/tcl/Portfile

[Ned Deily]

In article <50D4CA74.5000007 at orcaware.com>,
 Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 12:38 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Joshua Root 
> > <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> Revision: 100699
> >>>           https://trac.macports.org/changeset/100699
> >>> Author:   g5pw at macports.org
> >>> Date:     2012-12-20 15:51:41 -0800 (Thu, 20 Dec 2012)
> >>> Log Message:
> >>> -----------
> >>> lang/tcl:
> >>>   bump to 8.6.0
> >>
> >> This is a good example of where you should not just see "openmaintainer"
> >> and automatically commit the latest version. Both API and ABI
> >> incompatibilities are introduced with this release. Threading is now
> >> enabled by default, so the threads variant does nothing.
> >
> > revert + epoch bump + comment in the Portfile
> 
> That means we need to rev bump all dependent ports.  Unless there's 
> something broken with 8.6, shouldn't we just leave it and fix the 
> threading variant?

I believe the bump to 8.6 broke Python's IDLE and other Tkinter-based 
apps when using tk +quartz (aka Tk Aqua).

   RuntimeError: tk.h version (8.6) doesn't match libtk.a version (8.5)

Upstream, we have done no testing of Tk 8.6 Aqua with Python on OS X and 
make no claims that it is supported.  Tk 8.5 Aqua has been problematic 
enough for Python; we're certainly in no rush to move to 8.6, especially 
since Apple isn't shipping it.  I would recommend reverting to 8.5 as 
the default and/or making Tck/Tk 8.6 available as an option.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org