[GRASS-dev] Re: GUI support for TclTk 8.5

[Benjamin Ducke]

That would be great. Probably not worth worrying about the new
widgets right now.
Rather important to get NVIZ and the remaining MacOS X issues
sorted out for 8.5.1.


Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:
> I could try it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2008, at 6:36 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 
>> I can build an OSX GRASS app with TclTk 8.5 for others to test, and 
>> try it myself.
>>
>> If we intend to support multiple versions of TclTk, it would be 
>> helpful to have a TCLTKVER variable in Platform.make for the 
>> configured major.minor version.
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>>> IMO we should at least attempt to support Tcl/Tk 8.3 - 8.5.
>>>>
>>>> For 8.3 there is just the one problem with v.digit, AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>> For 8.5 it apparently mostly works, if it is just a few little issues
>>>> which are not so hard to fix, then we should try and solve them.
>>>> i.e. we should at least look into 8.5 problems, it is probably just 1-5
>>>> lines of code to be adjusted, and that's not a huge drain on
>>>> development resources.
>>>
>>> You are right that fixing issues is probably pretty simple. It's 
>>> figuring out what to fix that is time consuming. Right now, I'm 
>>> heavily overcommitted timewise. And on top of that, I'm using my 
>>> laptop (primary development box) for my GIS class and can't afford to 
>>> have GRASS broken for more than a couple days. So I have no problem 
>>> in theory, fixing the GUI for 8.5 if it doesn't involve NVIZ 
>>> internals or something like that, but won't have time to do much for 
>>> awhile.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
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