TCL 9.0?

[Mark Anderson]

Oh yeah - the tilde thing for sure set off alarm bells for me. And I agree,
we're going to need 8 and 9 for a long while, because a lot of old stuff
will never update.

—Mark
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 2:26 PM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 30/1/2024 01:18, Mark Anderson wrote:
> > Woah, never thought I'd see it:
> > https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/9.0.html
> > <https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/9.0.html>
> >
> > I wonder how big an impact it will be? Since we ship out own, not rush
> > (It's also still beta) but interesting nonetheless.
>
> The namespace resolution may affect some of our code, and the tilde
> change definitely does. It wouldn't surprise me if there are some more
> incompatibilities not listed on that page. We'll probably go to 8.7
> first for base.
>
> For ports, I would guess we'll need to keep Tcl 8 and 9 available as
> separate ports for quite some time.
>
> - Josh
>
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