begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:23:33AM -0700:
>
> On Sun, April 29, 2007 9:17 am, Darren New wrote:
> > Lan Barnes wrote:
> >>> I myself would be in favor of a tutorial.
> >> We can do that. I think it's not a bad idea.
> >
> > I'd be in favor of something about wrapping for deployment, perhaps.
> > Altho most everything in Tcl seems pretty straightforward. :-)
>
> To you (and maybe me), yes. But there are still attendees trying to decide
> whether to devote their time to more meetings, and I think it might help
> them decide to have a tutorial (review for some) of basic Tcl and Tk
> syntax.
The syntax is simple. The default commands, well, those are rich and
require study. :)
> Now if they want to devote a Saturday morning to this in workshop format,
> that could work too. I'd be game to teach the basics.
>
> Wrapping is a great topic. Are you thinking tclkit and/or Active State
> ("for deployment")? Or are you thinking the more plebian, but perhaps more
> useful to our beginners, topic of wrapping CLI programs in a GUI front end
> (with and w/o expect)?
_Unwrapping_ would be a great topic. I've used some of the packaged
tcl/tk apps that were delivered with an integrated database and
filesystem and god-knows what else, and it might as well have been a
C application, 'cuz I couldn't figure out how to unpack the whole thing.
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