[GRASSLIST:10498] Re: gis.m run failure

[Laurent C.]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:10:17AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <michael.barton at asu.edu> flavor, containing:
>   
>> I've been working with 8.4.x for quite awhile with no problems on the Mac
>> platform.
>>
>> Is there any reason now to stay with 8.3? (nviz? Other?)
>>     
>
> The one thing I ever heard of as a problem was NVIZ, and it was the first
> thing I tried once switching to 8.4 --- as far as I can tell on cursory
> examination, it does work on my system.  For me, staying with 8.3 was mostly 
> superstition --- some time ago there were strong warnings not to try to
> use tcl/tk 8.4, and I never tried.  There are still warnings in the 
> REQUIREMENTS.html file that some versions of Linux still need 8.3.
>
> I did see a few odd behaviors in gis.m (at one point I "cut" the last layer
> out of the list and the thing went into some sort of infinite loop) but I 
> didn't play around enough to see if they were reproducible.  I just fiddled
> around a little to see what was there, but didn't really try to do anything
> for real.
>
>   
Hello all,
I'm the maintainer of FreeBSD's grass port. Currently the port depend on 
the latest tcl/tk.
Is it safer to make it depend on tcl/tk 8.3 ?
Is there a way to test if nviz work well with 8.4 ?

Thanks,

Laurent