[Pkg-tcltk-devel] [RFC] Aspects of policy to be discussed

Francesco P. Lovergine frankie at debian.org
Tue Oct 9 07:56:40 UTC 2007


On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:30:43PM +0200, Michael Schlenker wrote:
> For Tcl 8.5 there is a new packaging mechanism introduced, to address
> the slow performance, but its orthogonal to the old package mechanism.
> (see http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/189 and http://wiki.tcl.tk/12999)
> This module approach should be addressed in the policy too, also its not
> as pressing yet. Tcl modules are prime candidates for being third party
> addons, similar to CPAN perl modules).
> 

Good catch, I would introduce a brief explanation of tclIndex for 
simple script libraries, pkgIndex.tcl for packages
and the new module mechanism in the policy, for completeness.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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