Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems)
Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems)
- Subject: Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems)
- From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:57:25 -0400
- Comments: In-reply-to Jamie Kennea <email@hidden> message dated "Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:59:17 -0400"
Jamie Kennea <email@hidden> writes:
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I guess our mission
> critical machine won't be getting upgraded to Leopard as it runs a Tcl/
> Tk application as its main purpose.
> Still this is not an Apple problem, obviously.
Oh, I wouldn't say that. Changing an API that's been stable for 20
years doesn't strike me as having been a good design decision. The
correct way to think about this is not "Apple broke Tk", it is
"Apple broke an unknowably large number of applications, of which
Tk is the first to be reported".
regards, tom lane
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