Re: [TCLCORE] Proposal for my contribution to Tk, request for comments

[Erik L. <el...@xs...>]

Thanks for the by and large positive reception of my proposal.

@Steve, regarding the encouragement to remain cross-platform
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     Sure, that's what I want too (why wouldn't I ?). Various of my 
previous contributions to bug
     tickets were reported/tested only on Linux and Windows, because I 
didn't have a macOS
     system available.

     Also, as far as compiled code is concerned, I don't master 
objective C. Therefore,
     this limits my possibilities for remaining entirely cross-platform.

     For the short term (subjects A. and B. of my proposal), this seems 
to be a moot point because
     these subjects are platform-indifferent, script-level tasks. 
However, for subjects C.
     and D. this will be something to be dealt with (occasionally).

     In anticipation of working more regularly on Tcl/Tk development, I 
got myself a macOS
     machine, so that I can at least run tests locally (against a 
pre-compiled Tcl/Tk) on
     that platform.


General procedure
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     I'm going to make a start with subject A.1 (see below for the 
entire subject A).

     My development efforts will happen intermittently at an order of 
magnitude of a week
     (currently two weeks on, one week off), because of my private 
situation.

     Therefore, it may take a few weeks before anything is ready for a 
first commit.

     Would you like me to report back here when that moment arrives (in 
order to create an
     appropriate branch in the Fossil Tk repository) ?


Best regards,
Erik Leunissen.
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A. STRUCTURAl ASPECTS OF THE TK TEST SUITE
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A.1 Collect utility procs

A.2 Collect (more) test constraint definitions in constraints.tcl

A.3 Make internal structure of test files uniform

A.4 Use common names for certain types of common utility procs

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