Re: something's rotten in the state of tclkit

On Apr 22, 1:16 pm, Mark Roseman <[email protected]> wrote:
> had a look, couldn't find a recent 8.5 tclkit for os x to download

I've had the same experience for SPARC Solaris as well.

>
> tried building it according to a few different set of instructions,
> all failed

I'm told that some people are more successful than I, but I too have
had this experience.

>
> find many different variations of things all called "tclkit", some
> with mk, some without, some with itcl, some without, etc.

Yes, despite the request by JCW to use different names if the stand-
alone has different functionality, people still, at times, create
things called tclkits which do not match.

Now, the last work from JCW was to create a non-metakit based version
of tclkit that he called tclkit-lite .

In at least oen other case, the creator of one of the stand alones
changed his creation's name from tclkit to kbskit since it didn't
contain everything from the original tclkit. I've had more success
using his build script than any other, and I suppose that if I worked
at it a bit, I could get some of the differences resolved. But in my
experience, things are pretty close.


>
> not sure if there is an official home

Well, this web page claims that http://www.equi4.com/starkit/ is the
home for the technology. However, I don't know whether there is any
activity going on there.

>
> information and documentation all over the place, mostly wildly out of
> date

Unfortunately I see this at times as well.

>
> is this really the state of tcl's great packaging technology... where
> you just give joe user a starkit, tell them to grab "the" tclkit for
> their platform and run?

As happens too often in open source ocmmunities, once things reach a
certain level, interest seems to plateau and then chaos begins
creeping in.

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