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

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

Op zo 20 okt 2024 om 21:57 schreef Harald Oehlmann:

> - msgcat also loads the registry package.
>

Indeed. Wouldn't it be much simpler to have a
   "info locale"
instead of having to do this?:
  Tcl Source Code: msgcat.tcl at [4292513191] (tcl-lang.org)
<https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/file?name=library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl&ci=42925131911a8796&ln=1319-1347>

Same with
    "info timezone" (or - maybe - "clock timezone"
for the clock code. On Windows it will use the registry
to find out the current timezone. On UNIX it will
derive this from the TZ (or TCL_TZ) environment
variable.

Yes, "info locale" and "info timezone" deserve a separate
TIP, it will eliminate the need for clock and msgcat to
use the "registry" extension on Windows.

Hope this helps,
       Jan Nijtmans