[TCLCORE] Re: Notes about Perl6 ideas - good to read

[Karl L. <ka...@Ne...>]

Brent Welch wrote:

> I'm probably and old man here, but I think we can revitalize Tcl without
> breaking backwards compatibility.  In fact, enough incompatibility could
> really hurt us.  We've finally got a stable C API through stubs - it seems
> a shame to make gratuitous changes to "clean things up".

I agree with this 100%.

> Now, I'm all for things like Feather and factoring the core so it can
> be smaller, but if someone doesn't want a "Tcl-lite" that just eliminates
> some features, then they should be able to use Tcl 9 without major pain.
> I'd probably also live with a binary-incompatibilty but source-compatibilty
> approach, which is probably necessary if we muck with the Tcl_Obj and
> Tcl_ObjType structures.

I think factoring the core is interesting and has some cool aspects, and if
someone does it and does a good job, let's embrace it.  I don't think it will
yield very many new Tcl design wins.

I think it would be a big deal to have a build system that cranks out binary
releases of a mega-Tcl with lots of extensions across many platforms.  There was
some discussion of this recently in the newsgroup.  Any thoughts or ideas?

Karl


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