RE: [tcltk-perl] packaging Tcl::Tk and Tcl/Tk files within Perl installation

[Konovalov, V. <vko...@sp...>]

> > > Did I understood correctly that "sl" in "libtcl8.4.sl" stands for 
> > > "starpack library"?
> > 
> > No, it stands for "shared library".  It is the HP-UX 
> > equivalent of a .so or .dll.

indeed.

> 
> To follow up on this, the code for handling the starpack as
> dll has nothing to do with the recent HP-UX support commits
> (those are purely for HP-UX).  The code has been in the CVS
> for a while now.  If you compile with -DUSE_TCL_STUBS (which
> should probably be the default), then when it loads the Tcl
> library, we make 2 extra sym checks for TclKit_AppInit, which
> would replace Tcl_Init on the interp, and TclKit_SetKitPath.
> These are used to indicate the shared library is the starkit
> source, and all is contained within it.

Yes, I noticed that some time ago.
I understood general idea with stubs, also I noticed TclKit_AppInit.
As I understood, all those are in line with general Tcl TEA.
I find those changes very useful, but I did not used -DUSE_TCL_STUBS yet.

Best regards,
Vadim.