Re: [Tcllib-devel] Questions about writting the docs and selenium-tcl

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Miguel <apl...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I attach to this email the new selenium library. There is an example in the
> directory "example": spider.tcl. This example is a spider written in
> spanish. It only requires the chrome browser installed on the machine. I
> continue developing the selenium library. For instance,
>     - I have to add documentation
>     - I want to add examples in english (not in spanish)
>     - I have to add a module for being able to use proxies in the selenium
> protocol
>     - I have to add the drivers for firefox and phantom.js
>
> I will contact with the author of caius project for suggestions and
> exchanging ideas. But the problem with its source code, and the reason that
> I wanted to create another library, it's that all his code is based in itcl.
> For me, TclOO was a must.

You could try to convince him to go with TclOO.
Still, yes, if you cannot convince him, then I do not see any of your
work making it into his code base, and you will have to maintain your
own.

> I think  that selenium is not normally included in the standard library of
> any programming language (at least in Python is not included in the standard
> library).

I have no real idea about that. Selenium has not been on my radar so far.

> Also another important library of Tcl for testing, Expect, is not included
> in tcllib.

Expect is written in C and has its own repository on SourceForge.
It existed way before Tcllib.
It will never be part of Tcllib. It simply does not fit.

> For all these reasons, I understand that selenium perhaps is not a candidate
> for being included in tcllib.

It feels to me like something which
(1) can make use of a lot of Tcllib, and
(2) is sufficiently large to warrant its own project and tracking.

> However, I want to nuance that this library is written only in Tcl (It
> doesn't use any code written in C for example).
>
> I observed that there is several Tcl libraries included in sourceforge.com.
> What is the preferred side to post Tcl libraries?
> I haven searching in github.com but there is very few libraries in Tcl.

Tcl packages are pretty scattered on the various code hosting sites.

     SourceForge, Github, GoogleCode (*), Chiselapp, Bitbucket, Atlassian, ...

If you are going with git as your version control system then Github
is certainly not a bad choice.
If you are going with fossil then Chiselapp is the only code hosting
for that, as far as I know.

Beyond that we (as a community) do not seem to have a strong preference.


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