Re: extensibility (was: Why you should not use Tcl)

Kevin B. Kenny (kennykb@dssv01.crd.ge.com)
Fri, 30 Sep 1994 21:27:00 GMT

In article <jwshin.780707862@resonance.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Jinwoo Shin writes:

|> Your doesn't??? Mine does, except mine's a size of a card deck!
|> Anyhow, since we have somehow digressed from flamewar to
|> extensibility ... I was wondering is there anyone who is going to
|> implement dynamic library loading for Tcl? There are more
|> "extentions" to Tcl that one can imagine, and it isn't always
|> pretty trying to write a wish with Tcl-DP + TclSIPP + expect + TclX
|> + Good + Blt + Photo + ..... I've read Tclworkship 94 paper on why
|> it is very difficult but can't someone atleast propose a draft of a
|> possible approach that we can take on this subject?

I'm working in it, except that `real' work keeps intruding.

If you want to look at my working copy, it's in

ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/pub/kevin/tclLoad-alpha0.4.tar.gz

I welcome testers, particularly on untried platforms...

73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY GE Corporate R&D, Niskayuna, New York, USA