Re: tip voting (was Re: [TCLCORE] Re: TIP#124: ...)

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Simon Geard wrote:
> As far as this TIP is concerned it does need a champion from somewhere. I
> don't really know anything about how this would be done in MS-win or MacOS,
> and anyway the handling of text inside the core needs to be enhanced in such
> a way that it is consistent with the current design.

My observations on this, fwiw:

(i) no champion is going to step forward, unless you are both v. lucky
and actually ask people who you think might help (people are simply too
busy to do even the projects that they have already thought of, let alone
someone else's projects, no matter how great)
(ii) have you looked at the Win/Mac source code?  Tcl/Tk source code is
the most clearly written you'll ever come across -- with a bit of looking
through public win/mac documentation (msdn.com, apple.com), if you had the
inclination I'm sure you could get something that was close enough to
correct that others might be able to clean up the rough spots on those
platforms.  There are helpful people on the mactcl mailing list who I'm
sure would lend advice.  (Some of whom are already considering changes to
Tk's text drawing to support MacOS X's more advanced typesetting).

Vince.