[#1011307] pfm refuses to start under Tcl/Tk 8.6

Date:
2013-02-18 09:49 Priority:
3

State:
Closed

Submitted by:
Willem Herremans (herremaw) Assigned to:
Nobody (None)

against:
2.0.7 Category:
bug

Group:
None Resolution:
Accepted

promised:
2.0.8

Summary:
pfm refuses to start under Tcl/Tk 8.6

Detailed description
The problem comes from the statement 'package require Itcl 3.4'. Tcl/Tk 8.6 has version 4.0 instead of 3.4. I thought that 'package require Itcl 3.4' means 'version 3.4 or higher', but, looking at the Tcl documentation now, I must admit that this is wrong. What it actually means is 'version 3.4 or higher, but not as high as 4.0'. So, 3.5 ann 3.7.11 would be OK, but 4.0, 4.2.7 or 5.0 are not OK. See Tcl documentation for package require and package vsatisfies. Especially, look at rule 3: 'A “min-bounded” requirement is a “bounded” requirement in disguise, with the max part implicitly specified as the next higher major version number of the min part. A version satisfies it per the rules above.' In my opinion, this makes it impractical to specify version numbers with the 'package require' statements. The best way forward is probably to remove all version specifications from the package require statements.

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Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2013-02-19 15:59	herremaw
close_date	None	2013-02-19 15:59	herremaw
Category	None	2013-02-18 09:54	herremaw
Resolution	None	2013-02-18 09:54	herremaw
promised	None	2013-02-18 09:54	herremaw