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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:15:53 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-noreply AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>>It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs
>>which rely on it.
>
>I would not say that this is strange.  The tcl/tk that is in cygwin, is
>only for insight/gdb, as the comment says.  It is not a full
>distribution of tcl/tk.  See the thread "tclsh83.exe should be
>cygtclsh83.exe".

Who do you think releases tcl/tk?  I don't know why you'd think that I
don't know what's going on here.  This was basically a *generic*
observation regardless.  tcl/tk changes the DLL name with every release.
I find that strange.

Regardless, it's very obvious that, setup comments notwithstanding, tk
is used by python.  I don't like breaking python every time I release a
new version of tcl/tk since I don't like making work for Jason.  I guess
that, somehow, Jason has found a chink in my otherwise mean demeanor.

cgf
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