Bundling Tcl 8.5

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Mar 3 04:57:48 PST 2014


On Mar 3, 2014, at 04:51, Clemens Lang wrote:

> A couple of months ago we were discussing whether to bundle Tcl 8.5 with MacPorts to get rid of the limitation to 8.4-features to preserve compatibility with older platforms. I have this change almost done in my working copy, but I have a few questions:

Thanks for working on this!

I’ll defer the rest of your questions but just say:

> My working copy currently only installs binaries and libraries of the mentioned packages but skips the documentation, mostly for speed reasons. Do we want the documentation in the private Tcl prefix?

Unless their license requires us to install the docs, I wouldn’t.



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