[RFA] Find init.tcl on cygwin

Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
Thu Dec 19 08:28:00 GMT 2002


Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>2002-12-19  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
>>
>>	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Default to correct location
>>	for installLib on cygwin.
> 
> 
> You know, normally I would just say, "yes", but this seems like a good 
> time to start a little discussion on this. 
> 
> I think I know why you want to move it to /usr/share from /usr/lib 
> (because it's the "right" place to put these files), but this would be 
> different from how net tcl/tk work, which I thought was the whole point to 
> trying to import 8.3.
> 
> So, do we care at all about not doing things too differently from the net 
> release (in the futile hopes to someday just require people to use the net 
> release) or do we even bother?
> 

We do bother.  It is really hard to maintain our customized copies of 
these things.



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