Re: New tclkit builds - 8.4.11 and 8.5a4

What you are envisioning is something perhaps which could be referred
to as a "Batteries Included" tclkit type interpreter.

In general, these tend to be huge, and of course, would still be a
development environment, so if there are burecratic rules against such
things in your environment, then it would violate those rules just like
activestate.

More specifically to your question, Activestate has a license that
prevents someone taking all the extensions from an Activetcl
distribution and creating a single executable including them all,
without first working out some sort of licensing agreement with them.

However, people have created somewhat comperable situations. For
instance, there is something like you envision that some of the MacTcl
community provide.

So someone could , for a specific platform, create a single executable
that contains tcl and a number of binary and script based extensions.

I just don't think that anyone has done such a thing in general.

As for docs, besides the web site, there is also the PDF that the yahoo
group tcldocs creates on a regular basis.

Most recently, that group has created a Tcl 8.4.9 and Tcl 8.5a2 pdf and
chm file that contain more than tcl docs, but also docs for tk and a
number of other extensions.

Perhaps you could work with them to include the docs with which you are
most interested.
Received on Sat Oct 15 03:53:51 2005