Summary: | dev-tcltk/otcl doesn't compile with tcl-8.5 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) <fmccor> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | TCL/TK Project <tcltk> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2008.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Ferris McCormick (RETIRED)
2009-05-11 15:59:36 UTC
Ooops. I checked for tcl-8.5.7 problems but did not realize this was an otcl problem. :( *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213028 *** otcl is dead. there is xotcl though. long live to xotcl! (In reply to comment #2) > otcl is dead. > there is xotcl though. > long live to xotcl! > Problem is that 2 packages DEPEND on otcl: tclcl and net-analyzer/ns (which most certainly is not dead). I syspect that ns is the only package which cares about either of these (or so suggests equery. ns (network simulator) is a very old package, but it has an extremely active user base. (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > otcl is dead. > > there is xotcl though. > > long live to xotcl! > > > Problem is that 2 packages DEPEND on otcl: tclcl and net-analyzer/ns (which > most certainly is not dead). I syspect that ns is the only package which cares > about either of these (or so suggests equery. ns (network simulator) is a very > old package, but it has an extremely active user base. > And of course there is no package for xotcl. :) I'm aware there are a couple of pkgs depending on otcl. But what can I do? The world can't stop because of an obsolete package. Does the upstream (of ns I mean) know that otcl is dead and is incompatible with tcl-8.5? What I see for the future is dropping otcl and its rrdeps... :( Any better solution? (In reply to comment #5) > I'm aware there are a couple of pkgs depending on otcl. > But what can I do? > The world can't stop because of an obsolete package. > Does the upstream (of ns I mean) know that otcl is dead and is incompatible > with tcl-8.5? I don't know. I'll try to find out. > What I see for the future is dropping otcl and its rrdeps... :( > Any better solution? > Not off hand. But as I mentioned, ns is a major package (don't know how much it gets on gentoo, though.) |