Re: tcl-kitchen-sink

["David N. Welton" <da...@apache.org>]

davidw@apache.org (David N. Welton) writes:

> Anyone have any comments on how they would like to have this whole
> thing work?  I really don't know what most users might want to see.
> I'm more inclined personally to just apt-get what I need (or make
> install from usr/ports on a BSD system) instead of having a bundle
> like this, so I'm not so sure what people want in it, and how they
> want it to function.  Is it enough to have some tarballs and call it
> good, or do people want some kind of fancy build system, maybe with
> a Tk front end...?

Since I haven't heard anything back about this, and since I'm getting
quite frustrated with the crappy build scripts in most of this
software, I'm going to put this on hold until some of the authors of
these things clean them up.

Case in point: tclxml
They are trying to do something good by creating a Tcl only installer,
but it's all mixed up with the Tk frontend, so it's impossible to
automate it!

If anyone wants something to do, they could go hack on tclxml (from
sourceforge), gdtclft, tcllib (this one's not bad, actually), and make
them work.

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