Re: [TCLCORE] Application for msgcat maintainer

[Donald G P. <don...@ni...>]

On 06/22/2012 01:32 PM, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
> motivated by Massimo Manghi and Jan Nijtmans (see below), I apply as
> maintainer for the msgcat core package.

I've been playing that role, sort of by default, since taking over long
ago from Mark Harrison.  I'd be very happy to turn over the reins to
someone with a more direct interest in moving msgcat forward in ways
that better serve those making more vigorous use of it than I ever
have.  Assuming no one else raises any objection, let's make it so.

The only "unfinished business" I have pending on the msgcat package is
the effort on the dgp-pkg-migration branch trying to convert msgcat
into something that fits under tcl/pkgs/ with Thread and Itcl.  So
long as you don't mind that activity continuing on that branch, you
can take ownership of the release branches right away as far as I'm
concerned.

Besides the technical matters of making msgcat fit into the tcl/pkgs
system, it's been my intent to also make msgcat development fall
under the tcl/pkgs rules as well.  No TIPs needed to add features,
just follow sensible package version conventions, release as you like,
and get the latest working release bundled when Tcl releases.

It's possible that a level of complete independence won't quite be
achievable since core Tcl (notably [clock]) make more direct use of
msgcat than any other code distributed as a nominally separate package.
We can see how that goes.

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| Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
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