[TCLCORE] makefile.vc rewrite time. where do we go from here?

[David G. <dav...@aj...>]

After learning all the tricks TclPro does to make wacky flavors of shells, I
decided to get Tcl's makefile.vc to be more friendly and act sort of like a
combination './configure [options]; make' by taking ALL the previously hand
edited options and putting them on the commandline.  So I can now invoke it
like this:

 nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc STATIC_BUILD=1 NODEBUG=0 TCL_THREADS=1
TCL_MEM_DEBUG=1 ...

I have it mostly working, but there's a few problems with win/tclAppInit.c .  I
want to drop this into Tcl_AppInit:

#ifdef STATIC_BUILD
#ifdef USE_REG_EXT
    if (Registry_Init(interp) == TCL_ERROR) {
	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    Tcl_StaticPackage(interp, "registry", Registry_Init,
            Registry_Init);
#endif
#ifdef USE_DDE_EXT
    if (Dde_Init(interp) == TCL_ERROR) {
	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    Tcl_StaticPackage(interp, "dde", Dde_Init, Dde_Init);
#endif
#if defined(USE_THREAD_EXT) && defined(TCL_THREADS)
    if (Thread_Init(interp) == TCL_ERROR) {
	return TCL_ERROR;
    }
    Tcl_StaticPackage(interp, "Thread", Thread_Init, Thread_Init);
#endif
#endif /* STATIC_BUILD */

But I don't know if I should.  Are the core extensions {dde,reg,thread} moving
to a different location in the source tree?  Should we stick these hooks in the
core's win/tclAppInit.c anyways?  Without this patch, I can't make a fully
complete static shell from the codebase as is.

If we are to move the location of the core's extensions, where should they go?

   tcl
    |
    + -- coreX.X.X  <- name depends on CVS tag or release or whatever
    |      |
    |      + -- compat
    |      + -- doc
    |      + -- generic
    |      + -- library
    |      + -- mac
    |      + -- test
    |      + -- tools
    |      + -- unix
    |      + -- win
    |
    + -- <pick_a_name>
           |
           + -- thread
           |     + -- generic
           |     + -- doc
           |     + -- test
           |     + -- unix
           |     + -- win
           |
           + -- dde
           |     + -- win
           |
           + -- reg
                 + -- win

How's that?
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  David Gravereaux <dav...@aj...>      Yet Another Tcl Guy
  Sustaining Engineer (Tech Support)                  Ajuba Solutions
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