Re: [tcljava-user] Jacl compat procs for Tcl 8.4

[Tom J. <to...@rm...>]

On Monday 24 March 2008 00:10, Mo DeJong wrote:
> Tom Jackson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone produced a set of replacement procs so that scripts written in
> > Tcl 8.4 can run under Jacl?
> >
> > I wrote a quick replacement for lsearch to add in the -all and -inline
> > options, but then I found that I needed [file normalize].
> >
> > Otherwise, are there a list of workarounds for this situation?
>
> Compatibility needs to be implemented with changes to the Java code of
> the Tcl commands in Jacl.

Obviously it would be more efficient code, but it would force the changes on 
everyone, and you couldn't selectively upgrade. 

What I'm interested in is starting jaclsh and then source a compatibility 
file, then start my application. I've done this for lsearch.

So new question: how is file path normalization handled in jacl?

tom jackson