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Re: Quality: some thoughts on achieving it (long)

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> It justs happens that I maintain 5 of these tcl/tk packages for 
> debian (tclx7[456] and tix4[01]). I think I could hack them so that 
> they do not refer to the sibling directory. I'd probably need some 
> include files from tcl/tk stored in the devel package as well.
> Should we try to go in this direction ?
> 
> IMHO, this is a really bad coding practise. It's kind of like 
> requiring the complete source code of libc to compile any program.

I agree, but unfortunately, it's pretty common practice in the Tcl/Tk
community.  I think it stems from the fact that there are always
little incompatibilities from version to version and they never know
which version is installed.  My personal preference is to change
upstream packages as little as possible, but I'm still undecided on
this issue.

David
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