Re: Latest tcl

[Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:12 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
> > > Quoting https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tcltk-defaults
>
> > I looked at:
> >     https://manpages.debian.org/testing/tcl/tclsh.1.en.html
>
> > But the problem is that several pages give the wrong information. And
> > I think most people will take the information from the first page they
> > find and not continue searching. :'-(
>
> No, the pages do not give the wrong information.
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tcltk-defaults gives the version of
> the *tcltk-defaults* package, which provides the unversioned things
> (that is, the tcl → tcl8.6 symlink); basically, which major version
> of Tcl/Tk is to be installed by default.

I have to admit that it's confusing to have tcl 8.6.9 and tcl8.6 8.6.10.

>
> Once you have that, you know that the real implementation is in the
> tcl8.6 package and you need to look at that version.
>
> It’s the same with python3 vs. python3.9 for example.

Actually, the python3 maintainers routinely bump the python3 version
to follow python3.<whatever>. Now I think that's a good idea, and I'll
adopt it for tcl/tk as well.

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Sergei Golovan