Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 702 - static linking for registry and dde

[Pietro C. <ga...@ga...>]

On Oct 19 2024, 15:05 +0000, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
>As a tangent, is there any interest in integrating Schelte Bron's dbus 
>and dbif libraries in the core as bundled packages? Schelte, what do 
>you think? Including these would give Tcl/Tk full platform-native IPC 
>support across all three platforms. I'd be glad to sponsor a TIP.

What would that mean, in practice? I can see different options:

1. dbus' repo moves within Tcl's fossil tree
2. dbus' packages are distributed with Tcl's (same as tdbc and Thread)
3. dbus is built as part of Tcl's build process

Speaking as a downstream packager, 1 and 2 have no impact on my work, 
and probably neither does it on final users.

As per 3, I see several issues.  I don't think dbus is special in any 
way, and - as much as I like it - I don't see it as being the future of 
IPC. Also, this would introduce a dependency on dbus to build Tcl, which 
I also don't favour. If this happened, in the FreeBSD ports, I'd 
probably disable it and provide it as a separate port anyway.

If we want to consider bundling 3rd party extensions, I think there are 
others that are more generally used than dbus and that would better fit 
a more "batteries" approach, e.g., tcllib, tDOM, tls, thread.

YMMV - which is why I'd rather keep the status quo.

Thanks,

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