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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.

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References:
	>More release 2.3.0 problems (From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>)
	>Re: More release 2.3.0 problems (From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>)
	>Re: More release 2.3.0 problems (From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>)
	>Re: More release 2.3.0 problems (From: "Wes Turner" <email@hidden>)
	>Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) (From: Jamie Kennea <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) (From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) (From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) (From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>)