Re: [Tile-dev] Re: tile 0.5 binary for MacOSX X11

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

Steve Landers wrote:
> Donald G Porter wrote:
> > My preference would be an index script that looks like this:
> >
> > if {![package vsatisfies [package provide Tcl] 8.5]} {return}
> > if {[catch {package present Tk 8.5}] != 0} {return}
> > if {[tk windowingsystem] ne "x11"} {return}
> > package ifneeded Tile 0.5 [list load [file join $dir libtile.so]]
>
> Is that going to address the issue - how to selectively load the shared
> library depending on the windowing system when Tk hasn't necessarily
> been "package required" when the Tile pkgIndex.tcl runs?

If you install two copies of Tile, one built against Tk/X11
and with a pkgIndex.tcl that looks like the above, and the other
built against Tk/Aqua and with a similar pkgIndex.tcl except
that it bails out early if [tk windowingsystem] ne "aqua" instead,
that should have the desired effect, subject to the constraint that
applications must [package require Tk] before [package require tile].


But here's how I would do it:

    # pkgIndex.tcl
    #
    package ifneeded tile 0.5 [subst {
	package require Tk 8.4
	if {\[tk windowingsystem\] eq "aqua"} {
	    load "[file join $dir tile-aqua.dylib]"
	} else {
	    load "[file join $dir tile-x11.dylib]"
	}
    }]


Alternately -- and this is how I would do things if
it were my machine -- arrange things so that Tk/X11
and Tk/Aqua have different search paths, and install
the appropriate version of tile in the appropriate
place.


--Joe English

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