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

[Charles Wilson]

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