Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:00:12 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: Tcl loadable packages Message-ID: <199707010630.QAA29699@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970629224648.7826B-101000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from Narvi at "Jun 29, 97 10:58:17 pm"
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Narvi stands accused of saying:
>
> I included the to-be port as an attacment. It currently installs the
> script (one line :-)) in ${PREFIX}/libdata.
>
> as for ../lib/tcl/site_tcl/..., it seems a bit unnceesarily too long.
It's not really unnecessarily long; there should be one entry in lib
for all the tcl stuff. You could argue that lib/tcl/pkgname would be
adequate.
> All of these would contain a mandatory load script (named just load?) that
> would load the appropriate package (and possibly any dependancies).
load, or pkgname_load (the latter would be more friendly) would be OK.
> Version dependance - well, there realy is not much we can do. We could, of
> course, have the load files have ineligence enough to load the right
> library if present (but if not, etc.)
Either that or usr lib/tcl<version>/packages; install the package for
the version it's built for...
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