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Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and "native" [Was: Re: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/...packages?]


Charles Wilson wrote:

Using these terms, what we already have is
  cygwin, GDI

ActiveState provides a
  native, GDI

What is being proposed is
  cygwin, X

Note that tcl and itcl do not, themselves, do any display-oriented processing. So GDI vs. X is meaningless for them. They could be released in a separate, "cygwin" tcl package.


It's only because we package tcl + tk + itcl + itk all together in one install that we worry about "X" tcl and "X" itcl.

AFAICT, expect is the same way; it depends only on tcl, not tk (and thus, not X or GDI).

The real bone of contention is "tk" and "itk" alone. How can we have a cygwin-X tk and a cygwin-GDI tk on the same machine.

--
Chuck


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