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: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:58:04 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> 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.
One of my major gripes with some open source projects has been
their willingness to change existing APIs, often without notice.
My hypothesis is that the people doing this are inexperienced
academics or government types who think rewriting hundreds of
existing applications is job security.
Bill
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