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: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:35:14 -0400
On 2008 Jul 27, at 14:57, Tom Lane wrote:
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
But it's not Apple's decision: one of the discussion threads cited
for this change is from x.org, dated 2006. Apparently it's a time
bomb of sorts in x.org waiting to strike anyone who upgrades.
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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