Re: [opensuse] version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.2, need exactly 8.5

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 20:06 +0000, Adrian Kappa wrote:
Hi!

I installed recently SUSE 11.0 on my computer. The installation succeded.
Until now I was using SUSE 10.3 and all my developed applications worked well under this (and earlier) distribution. I developed, among others, some applications using the OmNet++, a discret event simulation environment.

The problem occured when I tryed to compile and install OmNet++, since it is using TCL/TK package and an extension of it: the BLT packages. The installation reveals that the problem resides in SUSE 11.0 distribution.

I, too, use Tcl/Tk. I was considering upgrading my Tcl to the latest
greatest, but I found that BLT (Bell Labs Toolkit) is not working in the
latest tcl/tk. Seems no one is interested (slight exaggeration here). I
cannot guess why. BLT is a very powerful plotting utility. The good folk
at ActiveState say that a big part of the problem is that BLT does not
follow the TEA guidelines for an extension. As such, they themselves
will not include it in their ActiveTcl release. When ActiveState do
this, the extension generally will work with the current Tcl/Tk release.
I can't believe that the Tcl/tk community will let BLT die. But it
currently is not compatible with he current Tcl/tk release. The only
thing openSUSE could do is provide a complete Tcl/Tk release based on
the last version where BLT worked. My information on this is probably
more than one month old, so maybe things have changed. I surely hope so!

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