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Re: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:34:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?
- References: <20041015054225.GA3128@mc> <87mzyobdxj.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:09:28AM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>>>>>> Jean-Sebastien Trottier writes:
>
> > Hi All (and Chris in particular),
>
> > I've already been successful in getting the following to compile as
> > "native" Cygwin packages with minimal patches:
> > Tcl v8.4.7 (without registry and DDE)
> > Tk v8.4.7
> > Itcl v3.2.1 with Iwidgets v4.0.1
> > expect v5.42.1
>
> > I also intend to add Tclx and Tcllib and try to port the registry and
> > DDE libraries (part of Tcl) that are normally only for straight Windows
> > platform.
>
> > Of course, I don't mind becoming maintainer for these packages...
>
> > I just want to know if there's actual interest for this, or else I'll
> > stop wasting my time...
>
> > Let me know what you think.
>
>+1*10^10
>
>These are great news, I think cgf is already dreaming about a gold star,
>if you follow your way through the end.
I don't have time to read this thread in great detail but the reason for
the current situation is "insight". If releasing tcl/tk impacts insight
then -100 from me.
If someone wants to take over gdb + tcl/tk maintainership that's fine, though.
That is gold-star worthy.
cgf