Juergen Schoenwaelder writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said: > David> Aside to Juergen. What do you think of Dr. Ousterhout's > proposed > David> improvement to package loading? I will probably add it, or > something > David> similar, to the Debian version of Tcl 7.5 before packaging > Scotty > David> 2.1.2. > > Well, you know that I am not 100 % happy with John's solution. Anyway, > scotty will use whatever mechanism will appear in Tcl 7.6 to pickup > packages automatically. (I still hope that John modifies its scheme a > bit.)
What don't you like about it? I haven't really looked into the problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the advantages/disadvantages of his proposal. > I don't think that the patches proposed on the comp.lang.tcl list > create nasty side effects - you need a complicated setup with some > naming conflicts to make this happen. So it should be save to include > one or both of these patches in the Debian version if you are prepared > to change this scheme again when Tcl7.6 comes out. I would be prepared to change it. If I rebuilt scotty to use Tcl7.6 instead of Tcl7.5, I would be changing it anyways. As things stand now, I don't think either solution (modifying files in an installed TCL package or requiring users to set TCLLIBPATH) is acceptible for Debian. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
