On 2026/07/14 12:27, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> > On 2026/07/14 17:14, Lydia Sobot wrote:
> > > On July 14, 2026 17:10:08 GMT+02:00, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > > >Please leave for now. I have part of a change in my tree to add the
> > > >not-really-freely-licensed 8.x alongside a BSD-licensed version (6 at
> > > >first, maybe 7.2 later). This involves a directory reorganisation so
> > > >I have a bunch of cvs add'ed dirs etc which will be annoying to fix.
> > > >
> > > >Anyway, wouldn't it be better to set the default to 8.6 in the Tcl/Tk
> > > >modules, and set to use 8.5 in the various ports where 8.6 doesn't work
> > > >or hasn't been tested?
> > > >
> > > Btw, considering I was advised to port Valkey instead of Redict, maybe we could do that instead of adding in the 8.x versions, considering the licensing concerns?
> > 
> > redis' license was relaxed to allowing AGPLv3 as well as the various
> > even more restrictive ones. I want to keep a BSD-licensed version here
> > as AGPL isn't always suitable - there's no library involved, so it's
> > relatively easy to have multiple versions in ports.
> > 
> > current status: now imported but unlinked. In normal runtime it seems
> > fairly happy but tests hit EADDRINUSE:
> > 
> > [exception]: Executing test client: couldn't open socket: address already in use.
> >
> 
> 
> Please choose a MODTCL_VERSION and set it in the Makefile.

I have chosen a version : "the default"