Re: [Tile-dev] Stubs table

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

More departures from convention:

The stub initialization routine is

    const char *Ttk_InitStubs(Tcl_Interp *);

which is actually a macro that expands to

    TtkInitializeStubs(interp, TILE_VERSION, TTK_EPOCH, TTK_REVISION);

Note that the package version is hardcoded in the macro.
This way the caller doesn't have the opportunity to make
a mistake like

	Ttk_InitStubs(interp, "0.6");

which is likely to do the wrong thing if you compile against
a later version of the header files.

The name of the stub library shall not include a version number.
That is, on Unix and Unix-like systems it's called libttkstub.a,
and on Windows it's TTKSTUB.LIB.  This way dependant packages
can just specify -lttkstub; there's no need to grub around
for a *Config.sh file to decide whether to use -lttkstub06,
-lttkstub0.6, -lttkstub06g, or -lttkstub0.6.g.  Since the
stub library is not expected to change from release to release,
there's no reason for it to be versioned.  (And including ${DBGX}
in the library name is just perverse.)

Since the stub library name is fixed, there will not be a *Config.sh 
file.  There *might* be a *.pc file, for use with pkg-config, but 
no *Config.sh.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...