From: Lydia Sobot <chilledfrogs@disroot.org>
Subject: Re: Tcl 8.6 for databases/redis
To: ports@openbsd.org
Cc: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>, Stuart Cassoff <exokoide@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:14:50 +0200

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?