RE: [Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ?

[Reinhard M. <ma...@tc...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 at 10:00, Andreas Kupries wrote:

> From Lars we have that these commands are about manipulating the 
> contents of files, whereas the existing ones are not about directly 
> content, or at less so (His reference to 'cat' underminded that 
> argument a bit).

... and there are more existing commands that read the contents of 
files: fileType, foreachLine, and grep. Some even create files or 
change their content, albeit not with data that comes from the calling 
script: install, touch, and tempfile.

So we already have a mix of commands that read or write files, and 
others that only operate on directories, paths or file names.

> > Wasn't it the default recommendation for library writers to use 
> > qualified names instead of importing everything?
> 
> Library users you mean, I guess.

Both ;)

I meant people writing libraries that use existing libraries, as 
opposed to people writing applications that use libraries.

> This rings a bell, albeit not very hard. If you can find a reference 
> to this please post.

Maybe it was only discussed on the chat. I am not sure if I ever read 
it in a formalized or even archived way anywhere.

> > BTW, how about setting the "reply-to list" option for this mailing 
> > list?
> 
> It isn't ?

No, the mails that come via the list don't have a Reply-To header that 
points back to the list.

> It might be that the LookOut is not recognizing it. I am manually 
> trimming the receiver-list when responding, might have forgotten for 
> one of my replies.

If the list was setting a Reply-To header you probably wouldn't need 
to manually adjust the receiver-list. Just tell AusGuck to reply to 
the Reply-To address only, if it is capable of doing that.

cu
	Reinhard