Re: [TCLCORE] Consistancy in contributed packages (Was: Tcl/Tk 8.6b1 Release Candidates)

[Arnulf W. <ar...@wi...>]

Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 09:33:21 schrieb Jan Nijtmans:
> 2008/12/19 Andreas Kupries <and...@ac...>:
> >> Questions (that I may better understand...):
> >> - Why is zlib under compat/, libtommath under /, and tdbc under pkgs?
> >> Shouldn't these have very similar treatment in the location in the
> >> source tree?
>
> How about TclOO and tclZlib.c? I was wondering if they wouln't not be
> served better ad contributed package. Yes, we want to make sure
> that every Tcl distrubition has it, just like tdbc. TclOO is integrated
> in the core, it doesn't need a package require, but provides it's own
> package name and version. tclZlib.c is integrated in the core but
> completely independant. It could easiliy be converted to have it's
> own stub table, and be regarded as a separate extension.
>
> Not mentioning the package names. When adding Itcl to the
> contributed packages, then we will have two official bundled
> packages, "tdbc" and "Itcl". Is it wise to keep the character
> casing different, or should we simply provide "itcl" as well?

the beta release of itcl4.0 is named "itcl" already to be consistent
with [package require itcl]

Arnulf
>
> I think it is worth to consider this. (zlib itself and libtommath
> have a clear explanation why they cannot be contributed
> packages, I agree with Andreas about those two)
>
> Regards,
>           Jan Nijtmans
>
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