modern Tcl and correct quoting

[Poor Yorick]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:14:14PM +0200, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
> In any case, Tcl is not the only dependencies MacPorts currently needs,
> so I don't see a case to do that solely for Tcl. Self-management or
> self-hosting was discussed before but I guess nobody felt a real need to
> actually take the hassles to implement it. Given the fact that our
> dependency resolution is still quite basic I am not sure whether this
> would be feasible at the moment.
> 

FWIW, simple, redistributable, single-file, Tcl executables are available.
They don't even have to be unzipped:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/kbskit/kbs/0.4.4/Darwin_kbsvq8.6-cli

If one of these was dropped into the Macports distribution, you'd be free of
8.4.

-- 
Yorick