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From:
Stuart Cassoff <exokoide@yahoo.ca>
Subject:
Re: Tcl 9
To:
George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com>
Cc:
OpenBSD Ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:23:44 -0500

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  • Stuart Cassoff:

    Tcl 9

    • George Koehler:

      Tcl 9

      • Stuart Cassoff:

        Tcl 9

Thanks for having a look!

If there are no objections I'll commit this on Friday, the 19th.
Also the version mismatch guard:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=176503082827008&w=2

On Tue, 16 Dec 2025, George Koehler wrote:

> I also experimented with databases/sqlite3-tcl, locally editing it to
> have "MODTCL_VERSION = 9".  It made libtcl9sqlite3510.so (instead of
> libsqlite3510.so), so I also edited its PLIST.  This allowed tclsh9 to
> "package require sqlite3"; then I tried it by copying a short example
> from the internet.
> 
> Both examples (for tk and sqlite3) ran well.

Nice.
That's the naming convention used when building against 9.
Making packages that support 8 and 9 is the next challenge.


Stu