Tcl versions with threads enabled

[Gustaf Neumann]

Dear all,

three weeks ago, i asked on macports-users how to proceed in 
cases where ports depending on Tcl with thread support 
should be realized. From my distant view, there are three 
options:

a) port variants (no good idea, since we can't have 
dependencies on these)
b) making tcl threaded by default (my personal favorite, 
other tcl unix distros went this way)
c) subports (not sure, if this is worth the potential 
confusion, when there are two version of the
    same software release around, probably, one has to 
mangle names for the dylibs on macports)

Other usages of subports i have seen are for version number 
management. Currently there is just a "tcl" port, no tcl8.4, 
tcl8.5 or tcl 8.6 port. For this purpose, subports appear 
(to my limited knowlege) the way to go. Btw: Some of the 
ports depending on tcl fail currently due to the fact that 
they depend on tcl 8.4, but the "tcl" port is actually 8.5.

Is there any decision making process on the way? Anything i 
can do?

Is there anything i can do to accelerate the three tickets 
below?
(all have a patch or Portfile attached, these are easy to test)

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32858
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32859
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32899

Best regards
-gustaf neumann