Re: [TCLCORE] New tip #722

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Update done. (Could someone with the right privileges please give TIP
repository write access to Christian?)

Since we are tinkering with [package names], I'd like to point out that the
term "available" is a little misleading, even in the current manpage.
Currently, [package names] only returns names *currently* known to Tcl, not
those available on disk. One has to do the completely non-intuitive

catch {package require nosuchpackage}; # Force a full search along path
package names

to retrieve the packages available to be loaded.

So the question is,

- will [package names available] continue the same behavior of not actually
searching the package paths ?
- if it does not do a full search, can we add a [package names refresh] that
will replace the (ugly imo) catch {} ?
- if it does do a full search, [package names] as currently implemented is
no longer the union of [package names loaded] and [package names available]

I would actually prefer [package names] to do a full search though that
would be differ from current behavior. I'm not sure why it did not do that
in the first place, presumably performance, though I wonder if performance
is really an issue in situations where [package names] is used.

/Ashok

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Werner <Chr...@t-...> 
Good point, Don. So may I ask Ashok again to update the TIP entry to