[Tclish-devel] TIP#55 - trial repository

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

Taking on the suggestion that TIP55 should consider the form of a repository 
and the installation mechanism I've been putting together some code to trial 
this idea.  I've packaged up a small number of extensions and built a cgi 
interface to the repository. Please visit:

http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/~steve/cgi-bin/cantcl.cgi

This now contains 8 extensions including a binary one (zvfs) and my 
installer extension which contains code for installing extensions 
automatically and generating the web index.

The only change from the suggested format in TIP55 is to add .txt to the 
DESCRIPTION file as suggested by Jeff.  It's clear from playing with binary 
extensions that work needs to be done on where to place platform specific 
code/libraries.  One that I have (zvfs) is linux only, the other (mkZiplib 
inside installer) contains both linux and windows libraries but won't work 
out of the box for windows (pkgIndex.tcl needs changing).

Steve