[Tclxml-devel] RE: TclDOM/libxml2, TclXSLT - Tcl 8.3.5

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ball [mailto:Ste...@zv...]
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:46 PM
> To: Andreas Kupries
> Cc: Jeff Hobbs; tclxml-devel
> Subject: Re: TclDOM/libxml2, TclXSLT - Tcl 8.3.5
>
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> You wrote:
>
> > I was wrong in this. Bad memory. The old API is 'TclpGetTime',
> > and it is available via the internal stub table of Tcl 8.3.5.
> >
> > So TclDOM/libxml2 could be made to configure and run with 8.3.5.
> > Question is, should we ?

> I've made a note in the source code.  It is only used in
> one place, as part of the event system.  My preferred
> option would be to simply put in a macro that disables
> the use of the time function if TCL_VERSION < 8.4
> and document the lack of functionality in 8.3.5 (and earlier)
> in the man page.

Oh, so this is an external XSLT function provided by Tcl and not something
from
the standard ? ... Ok, just removing that functionality for 8.3.5 would be
an
easy solution. I won't object if you do it that way. Just tell which way you
went.


> Cheers,
> Steve Ball



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