Re: [MACTCL] Re: Close to the source

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

From: Philip Aker <ph...@vc...>

From: Jim Ingham <ji...@ap...>

> Perhaps a better solution for the non-Unix'y MacOS X folks is to 
> package up the full TkCon as a stand-alone app and suggest folks use 
> that. I would have no problem with shipping this in the binary 
> distribution of AquaTk.

> What I'm after here is to be able to turn on folks to the best possible 
> experience with the Tcl that come with a stock Mac OS X install (of the 
> future).  

> If it includes some of the 
> packages and extras that have been mentioned but then won't be hooked 
> up automatically, then I would expect the user to be able to say create 
> a .tclshrc file and use 'source' and 'package require' et. al. to have 
> their environment customized from the things in the stock install. This 
> is the kind of thing that is currently expected for the default shell 
> (as in /usr/share/tcsh/examples/README).

One thing that might be considered is how to use the .tclshrc (or .wishrc)
to hook TkCon into Tk's console command and into Tcl's standard startup
for interacting.
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