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On 14/09/2009 18:14, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Anway, tcl-8.5.6 and tk-8.5.6 built easily on a bog-standard cygwin-1.7
> system using the cygports derived from the Cygwin Ports project. I
> couldn't just use the Cygwin Ports binaries because IIRC they depend on
> other Cygwin Ports packages not available in the normal cygwin
> distro...and I didn't want to pull in more than I needed.

That is incorrect.  Tk's dependencies are several X libraries which are 
all available from the distro.

> 'Course, this broke my insight since I didn't bother to rebuild gdb.
> But, if it would help, I can post these cygport files (which may differ
> very slightly from the Cygwin Ports-supplied and -dependent ones).

How so?

> While doing that, I was curious to see what else this change would break
> (e.g. what else relies on tcltk):
[snip]
> which, honestly, isn't very much. I'd be concerned about all those
> tcl-db${old_version} packages -- but it looks like there are no
> in-distro users of them.  That leaves gdb, ruby, python, git, and parrot
> -- all of which have active maintainers.  Plus suite3270 and brltty,
> which I'm not sure about.

I see no plausible way to transition other than a simultaneous release 
of all these packages.


Yaakov

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