Re: [TCLCORE] End of Votes

[Jan N. <nij...@us...>]

2008/12/11 Hemang Lavana <hl...@ci...>:
> It's not as simple as doing "package provide" twice when tcl modules are
> involved. This is how our developers initially started out to support
> multiple cases for our packages. They had multiple "package provide"
> statements in their library to support FooBar, foobar and fooBar. However,
> when we started creating tcl modules for these packages, the "package
> provide" trick would no longer work.

Here we are talking about packages implemented in C, not Tcl
modules, which has a lot of additional handling. Anyway, I'm very
interested to hear what the problem was, but I am confident
that for the situation we are talking about here, it doesn't apply.

Remember, the deadline for Tcl 8.6 TIP's actually already
passed, so anything doing now must be as simple as
possible with zero risk. To me, doing this for TclOO, Tcl
and Tk would be acceptable, but anything more than
that is not worth the risk.

Anyway, thanks for your remarks. Your proposal might
be a good solution, but it's too late for Tcl 8.6.

Regards,
           Jan Nijtmans