why not provide Tcl/Tk 8.4?

[Justin Mason]

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Jean-Luc Fontaine writes:
>I always wondered why Red Hat never upgraded to the latest stable Tcl/Tk 
>8.4.4 release (more performant and with bugs fixed), but instead sticks 
>to the 8.3 series. Suse and others I believe have been using it for a while.
>
>Let me know if I can help (I make Tcl/Tk 8.4.4 rpms available on my 
>homepage).

Yeah -- +1 from me -- the current RH9 Tcl/Tk RPMs cause ExMH to use
*massive* quantities of memory, due to some wchar_t patch Red Hat's
specfile applies.

ActiveTcl 8.4 -- which I use instead -- works much better, and still
displays utf-8 ;)

- --j.
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