Re: [Tcllib-devel] Question about the test utilities

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:

>useLocal ...
>
>When you have a tcllib package FOO depending on a Tcllib package BAR the
>testsuite cannot simply do 'package require BAR'.
>
>Because if you do you are in the danger of not getting the version of BAR
>which is in the Tcllib you are working with, but some previously installed
>version of BAR, likely older, likely different.
>
>So I added commands to devtools/testutilities which allow you to load a
>Tcllib package directly, without going through the regular package
>management.
>
>The main commands are 'useLocal' and 'use'.
>
>The first of these assumes that the package BAR you want is in the same
>module as the using package FOO. This is the case for mvlinreg and linalg,
>both are in the math module. 'use' OTOH just assumes the BAR is somewhere in
>Tcllib, and you have to specify the module as well, as part of the path to
>the file you are loading. I.e. if BAR is in mode ZAT you say
>
>	use ZAT/BAR bar ...
>
>Does the above make sense ?
>  
>
Hi Andreas,

it makes perfect sense! I was imagining things about cleaning up etc, 
but this
is a much simpler explanation.

Thanks for the above (and the software it talks about - it is such a 
pleasure to
use sak, especially due to its extensive online help).

Regards,

Arjen