Re: [tcljava-user] Jacl 1.4 - support for package require with "resource".

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> Just wondering if "package require" works with resource and libraries 
> packed in jar files.
>
> e.g.  something like.
>
> C:\Tcl\lib>jar -cvf tcllib1_9.jar tcllib1.9
>
> set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:/Tcl/lib/tcllib1_9.jar
>
> java -classpath %CLASSPATH% tcl.lang.Shell
>
> % lappend auto_path resource:/tcllib1.9
> resource:/tcl/lang/library resource:/proclib resource:/tcllib1.9
> % package require term
> can't find package term
> % package require log
> can't find package log 
>
Would you be interested in writing up some patches and documentation
for this kind of functionality in 1.4? Adding to the auto_path should
work as long as a pkgIndex.tcl is found, see the logic in init.tcl
to see how this works. It would also be very nice to be able to place
a pkgIndex.tcl file in the root of a .jar file bundle and only have
to add the .jar to the CLASSPATH or env(TCL_CLASSPATH).

Mo DeJong