DN485337023

Subject: Re: Stubs, plus patch, dash patch, img, and more - DN [1]

Jan Nijtmans <Jan.Nijtmans@wxs.nl> - 03 Jun 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 lvirden@cas.org wrote:
 > In the meantime, I seem to recall some conjecture that somehow the Stubs
 > interface might aid somehow in this type of situation.  I'm uncertain
 > exactly how that might work, and so I thought I would ask - is it the
 > case that now, with Tcl 8.1.x, that I could build Img and other Stubs
 > compatible extensions, and get that one version to work with various
 > featured interpreters?

 Tcl/Tk 8.0.3 already brought that partially: Any extension which
 is built against 8.0.3 or higher will run with any other 8.0.x
 version, no matter what patches are applied (8.0p2, 8.0.4plus ....).
 Only the jump to 8.1 couldn't be made, that's where Stubs come in.

 As soon as Tcl/Tk 8.0.6 is released with Stub support, extensions
 can be compiled two ways:
 - Without Stubs, then it will run with any 8.0.x version
   (even 8.0p2!!!!!), but not with 8.1.
 - With Stubs, then it will run with 8.0.6, 8.1.x, 8.2.x, but
   not with any lower versions.

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