Bug 428712

Summary: Missing versioned interpreter
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wart <wart>
Component: tclAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: tcl-8.5.0-6.fc9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Wart 2008-01-14 19:24:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
The package installs a  /usr/bin/tclsh binary, but no longer includes the binary
with the version number:  /usr/bin/tclsh8.5

This causes problems with some legacy applications that hard-code the version
number into the script itself.

tcl should install /usr/bin/tclsh8.5 as the actual binary, and make
/usr/bin/tclsh a link to /usr/bin/tclsh8.5, just as it did for tcl 8.4

The same is true for tk.  tk should install the binary as wish8.5, and make
/usr/bin/wish a link to wish8.5.
Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-15 08:07:25 UTC 
Hm, in packaging draft:
Bad:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.5

Good:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
package require Tcl 8.5
Comment 2 Wart 2008-01-15 13:01:47 UTC 
For Tcl extensions/applications, yes.  But Tcl itself should still provide both
the versioned and unversioned binary name for backwards compatibility with third
party applications that are not packaged as part of Fedora.