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Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Here are some of the previous discussions:
>
> Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00316.html
>
> Does anyone use insight on cygwin?
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00089.html
>
> tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html
>
> gitk unusable in cygwin-1.7.6-1 because tcltk-20080420-1 is native win32
> app.
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00913.html
>
> ====NOTE====
> in the gitk thread above, Reini Urban, the cygwin perl and parrot
> maintainer, was vehemently against switching tcltk from GDI to X11. ?I
> wonder if his opinion has changed in the past year...
No, I'm still against it, but in minority.
I tried to fix it, but ran out of time.
Maybe later I can come up with a tk/tcl-native.
--
Reini Urban
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