[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Some major reasons to add a Tcl/Tk 8.5 package

[Igor Goryachev]

Michael Schlenker <schlenk at uni-oldenburg.de> writes:

> Threaded/non-threaded:
> I know that debian is one of the few to use a fully thread enabled
> tcl-8.4 in the default install and a non-threaded tcl-8.3. The current
> mood upstream is to make thread-enabled the default sometime in the
> (near) future, so debian should be well prepared.
> Many well behaved packages can use --enable-threads during compile time
> to include the mutexes and locks for working in a threaded environment,
> but stay loadable without changes in non-thread enabled builds. Also,
> STUBS enabled packages compiled with --enable-thread may be used with
> all Tcl versions from 8.1 to 8.5 without changes.

Hello, Michael.

Have you seen bug #312258 (http://bugs.debian.org/312258)? There were
random freezes which accured while using Tcl/Tk built with threads
enabled. This (mis)behaviour couldn't be reproduced when using xorg. I
had no freezes of tcl/tk since I updated my several workstations to
Testing/Etch (two months or so).


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