Re: [Tcllib-devel] 8.5+ packages?

[Andreas K. <aku...@sh...>]

> Any comments on packages that require 8.5 in tcllib so far?  I think 
> this discussion came up, but I couldn't find it.

The only packages currently in Tcllib which exclusively require 8.5
are version 2 of snit and math::bigfloat. The treeql package has two
different implementations for 8.4 and 8.5. Some other packages, like
sha1, math::optimize, and struct::list do minor tweaking when loaded
into 8.5.

 
> I have fixed the JSON parser that is on the wiki, and would like to add 
> it to tcllib.  It uses dict (and it only gets sticky if you don't want 
> to use dict).  I have coded it to fall back on trying to package require 
> dict below 8.5 (ActiveTcl includes dict).

snit v2 uses dict commands as well ...

Regarding the dict package in AciveTcl, it is possible to write a
replacement in pure Tcl if we do not wish the dependency. If we do
that Pascal's 'dict' compat package in ActiveTcl can be an accelerator
for the pure Tcl version.

 
> Any objections to my adding it?

No objection from me.

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	Andreas Kupries <aku...@sh...>
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