Re: [Tcllib-devel] Tcllib - Reopened discussion on what packages to put into it.

[Donald G P. <dg...@ni...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:
> Current state
> 	Tcl-only packages which depen only on tcl, or other Tcl-only packages of
> this type.

Is it true that currently a package can go into tcllib only
if all of its dependencies are either distributed with Tcl
(msgcat, http, registry, etc.) or are also part of tcllib?

If that's not correct, what is a counter-example?

> Proposed by Aaron:
> 	Relax the restrictions to allow dependency on non-optional C packages.

The question is a bit on the abstract side.  For sake of
concreteness, what is the short list of packages currently
being excluded from tcllib that would be allowed into tcllib
with the policy change?

I think I like the idea.  Some folks seem concerned about
shipping a distribution where some small fraction of the included
packages won't work out of the box for some small fraction of
downloaders.  To mitigate that, perhaps a refinement would be that
a package can go into tcllib only if all its dependencies are 
distributed as part of ActiveTcl?

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