Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 20:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. Message-ID: <199511270409.UAA19883@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511270148.BAA02573@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 27, 95 01:48:25 am
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> > Hmm. Two days ago you were saying "it can't be done!" (or for the > australians here, "we'll all be rooned!"), wrt. leap to X. Has this > changed your mind? (I'm being optomistic here 8) ok Hanrahan, don't get too excited.. > > > Can we re-open the traditional (heh heh) dialog on this topic? there was movement at the station for the word had got around..... > > > > 2. I think we need to sit down and devise a list of tcl commands, I think that an install disk with a single executable linked with tclX, should be able to do all the installation :) have builtin tcl scripts for all the usual commands.. (add tk when a server is found :) > > in their own little library and name space, for doing all the sorts > > of things that one might want to do to files on the system in the > > process of "installing packages." Maybe we'll find that existing > > TCL or TCLX primitives require just a few more additions to make > > for a completely robust package building environment, I dunno. > > We'll just have to look and see. > > Ok, I'm sold on TCL. I know it's not perfect, but it's a _common_ language, > so the available programmer-base is much larger. Can we win the war to get > tcl into the base distribution? 8) This "devision" should go well with > John's recent post wrt. the 16-step plan to a tighter installation. >
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