RE: SEUL: Text editors: update

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

We would probably be better off with the newer version where available.  What I
ment by the dependancies were the current versions of those programs as
currently shipped with the Debian Linux distribution.

The questions to be asking now are things like, is a version of TkDesk for 8.0
in the works?  All things being equal, I would rather go with the newer version
of Tk and tcl only because it keeps the release from going obsolete as quickly
or we can provide both, as Debian does. It is not a major issue since there is
plenty of room for both.  Once you get to the point of installing X, you are
beyond the initial boot disks and are installing from CDROM or over the network
anyway.

I currently have both installed on my Debian-2.0 system with no problems. If
you select a program that depends on the other version, it just gets installed
as well, they are not mutually exclusive.


On 21-Feb-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> 
> [ referring to apps depending on Rcl/Tk 8.0 ]
> 
>> The following packages currently depend on 8.0:
>> 
>> isdnutils, expect, zircon, scotty, tkrat, tkstep, tkmixer, ucbmpeg, gcl,
>> hfsutils, ical, et, awe-midi, ultra-utils.
> 
> I believe that you are mistaken as some of these packages were available
> before Tcl/Tk 8 was. In particular, expect shipped with RedHat 4.1/2 which
> only included Tcl/Tk 4.2/7.6
> 
> What we need to look at is if there are packages that _really_ need Tcl/Tk
> 8.0.
> 
> There is (in my view anyway) no harm in shipping a slightly older version
> of a package if there is no clear difference between versions (other than
> the tcl/tk version used)
> 
> -- Donovan
> 
> 
> 

George Bonser 
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