Re: [swarm-hackers] swarm 2.3.0 release

[Scott Christley]

On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >  I don't know.  I just know that my Swarm installations (from last  
> > year)
> > work on Hardy and don't on Intrepid.
> >
> >
> > > What trouble is in your mind to recommend using the Hardy package???
> >
> > Same error you got with the TclInterp.
>
> OK, Glen wins a prize.  The blt deb packages from Hardy do work with  
> Swarm-2.3.0 on Intrepid.
>
> Since I've re-built blt about 9 times and Swarm 10 times in the past  
> 2 days, I'm pretty disgusted by the situation and I'm going to make  
> it my business to find out how the blt packager for Intrepid broke  
> the functionality we need.  With the EXACT SAME blt base code, it is  
> astounding to me that they would break something so horribly.

I installed a completely new ubuntu 8.10 along with tcl/tk 8.4 and the  
blt-dev package.  Swarm fails to compile as it cannot find tcl8.5, so  
essentially the blt package on ubuntu does not support tcl8.4.  I  
suppose maybe this was a packaging decision, we could file a ubuntu  
bug and ask them to provide a 8.4 compatible package, or provide one  
ourselves.

I'm not sure if moving Swarm to tcl/tk 8.5 is an easy or hard task.

Scott