wjoye
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2 days ago Ole
If I can get bohagan1’s version to compile for MacOS, linux, and windows, I’ll be glad to drop my version. I’ll let you know later.
Bill
On Nov 1, 2024, at 4:36 PM, Ole Streicher @.***> wrote:
Dear William, as you probably still remember, I am maintaining the tk-table package in Debian based on this repository as a dependency to build SAOImageDS9 for Debian. The package is kept separate to also enable others to use tktable in Tcl/Tk scripts, and that works quite well (~30% of the tktable installations are not DS9 related). During a discussion in the usenet about porting tktable to Tcl/Tk 9.0, it turned out that there is another repository, https://github.com/bohagan1/TkTable which already did the port. I asked @bohagan1 about the relation to your repository, and his answer was My repo includes all of the relevant changes from wjoye's repo, plus whatever patches, bug fixes, etc. I could find on the Internet including the Debian patches, updated python file, etc. I also included many enhancements of my own making plus the Tcl/Tk 9 changes. So I would say it is the canonical version at this point. As it is probably a very good idea to have one single development of this package instead of several forks: would it be possible to merge the efforts into a single, commonly maintained repository? This would probably very useful for the whole Tcl/Tk community. Best regards Ole P.S.sorry that I can't provide a link; it seems that the Usenet isn`t archived any onger. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: @.***>
olebole
bohagan1
Dear William,
as you probably still remember, I am maintaining the tk-table package in Debian based on this repository as a dependency to build SAOImageDS9 for Debian. The package is kept separate to also enable others to use tktable in Tcl/Tk scripts, and that works quite well (~30% of the tktable installations are not DS9 related).
During a discussion in the usenet about porting tktable to Tcl/Tk 9.0, it turned out that there is another repository, https://github.com/bohagan1/TkTable which already did the port. I asked @bohagan1 about the relation to your repository, and his answer was
As it is probably a very good idea to have one single development of this package instead of several forks: would it be possible to merge the efforts into a single, commonly maintained repository? This would probably very useful for the whole Tcl/Tk community.
Best regards
Ole
P.S.sorry that I can't provide a link; it seems that the Usenet isn`t archived any onger.