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Re: [TCLCORE] Full merge of OS X Cocoa port to Tk 8.5 main branch?

From: Jan Nijtmans <jan....@gmail.com>
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:44:45 +0200
2012/8/8 Jeff Hobbs <jef...@activestate.com>

> Is there any concern with having the 'tk-cocoa-8-5-backport' merged into> 'core-8-5-branch'?  This will only effect OS X.  Both Apple and> ActiveState build from the Cocoa port, and aside from some tricky edge> cases with event handling, it has been considered the better variant for> years now.>

I would be carefull with that. Comparing the core-8-5-branch with
the "tk-cocoa-8-5-backport" branch there are some things I note:

- In core-8-5-branch, all RCS ID's were removed, in tk-cocoa-8-5-backport
  they are all back (e.g. in tk.decls, tkInt.decls, )
Differences like (macosx/README) :
-  (making relinking unnecessary was added in 8.4.2)
+  (making relinking unnecessary was added with 8.4.2)
or (unix/tcl.m4)
-        AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find Tcl configuration definitions. Use
--with-tcl to specify a directory containing tclConfig.sh])
+        AC_MSG_WARN([Can't find Tcl configuration definitions])
+        exit 0
or (unix/configure.in):
-    AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
+dnl FIXME: Replace AC_CHECK_PROG with AC_CHECK_TOOL once cross compiling
is fixed.
+dnl AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
+    AC_CHECK_PROG(AR, ar, ar)
+    AS_IF([test "${AR}" = ""], [
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([Required archive tool 'ar' not found on PATH.])
+    ])

Those show that some fixes done in core-8-5-branch
were not done in tk-cocoa-8-5-backport'. What more
would we lose? I guess that the backport branch
was maintained separate for a while (CVS branch?)
and some files where simply copied over....

So, please be carefull with that.

Regards,
          Jan Nijtmans

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