Re: [TCLCORE] vxworks support

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

On 21/01/2010 15:15, John Kopaz wrote:
> Is anyone working real vxworks (5.4 or newer) support for 8.6?
>
> I saw the patch at http://wiki.tcl.tk/21062 for 8.5.2 as a hack....
> I also saw one for 8.0 and a 7.x version that looked clean.
>
> I was hoping someone else was also interested in leveraging the new 8.6
> oo:: on vxworks.

Are you aware that the TclOO stand-alone package (you can get the
sources from SF, or contact me directly for the latest version since the
last release is a little old) works just fine with 8.5? If that's the
only version of Tcl you've got then you're still OK. (Well, if you've
got [load] working that is; I've no idea about how to compile it into
Tcl these days, though it should work as a static package...)

Generally speaking though, I've no objection to working in VxWorks
provided it doesn't badly hurt the other users of Tcl. Configuration
changes are fine, huge numbers of extra #ifdefs aren't. :-) FWIW, Tcl
8.6 is much less stack heavy than previous versions of Tcl, so
restrained resource environments are much better off than before.

Donal (offline so can't read that wiki page...)