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

[Michael S. <sc...@un...>]

Donald G Porter schrieb:
> 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?
Its correct that all 'mandatory' dependencies must be in Tcllib or Tcl
itself. But its not fully true (e.g. the package term has a dependency
on stty on unix). If there is a tcl implementation soft dependencies on
accelerators are possible.

>> 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?
Most XML based stuff. (jabberlib, xmlrpc, and others).

Michael