Re: [Tclish-devel] Package description format

[Steve C. <ste...@mq...>]

On Thursday 02 August 2001 11:22, you wrote:
> Steve Cassidy wrote:
> ...
> > Peter, Steve, how about whipping up a tcl-xml module to parse this and
> > give us access to the relevant parts?
>
> No need for us to do it: AS are already working on it.  

That's great. Andreas, will AS make this available as soon as there is 
something workable? It would be good to begin setting up an experimental 
extension archive as soon as possible so we can see what issues arise 
with various extensions. 

> Also, it is
> apparent that TclXML is going to be included at least in tcllib
> (if not the core) so that it is always available for processing OSD
> documents.

Very good news. It occured to me though that we could probably hack up a 
simple bootstrapping installer to download tclxml, zip and whatever else the 
installer needs into a bare tcl installation.  Zip is of course the most 
complicated  since it's needed to unpack anything and so can't be distributed 
as a zip file...Is this an argument for having zip support included in the 
core?  The two zip extensions I've looked at (zvfs and mkZiplib) could 
usefully be combined into a very small and useful extension which would slip 
very nicely into a standard minimal tcl install.

Steve