Re: New sourceware TCL is okay in my testbed

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

The Tcl maintainers have not incorporated our changes in the past.  I am maily 
talking about changes to make it Cygwin compatible.

Things have changed now in the Tcl world -- if someone has the time to try we 
may succceed now.  The problem is to fing the time...

Regards,
Fernando


Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:> Ben Elliston writes:
> > Why do there need to be any differences in Tcl and Expect at all?
> > Those diffs should either be contributed to the Tcl maintainers or
> > possibly discarded.
>
> Feel free.  Download TCL 8.4.1, check out the sourceware "TCL" module, go
> through the diffs, and send upstream patches to the TCL maintainers.
> Anyone can do this.  But I suspect that no one has time to do this.
>
> More helpfully -- some of the diffs are changes to make TCL fit into our
> "build in unified tree and test without installing" vision.  Some of them
> are noise from RCS key strings in files.  And some of them are
> Cygwin-specific changes that probably would be useful to push upstream.
>
> As a tester, I report on what I see.  I can't make the world perfect,
> and I won't gloss over what I actually see even when it is flawed.
>
> Michael C


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