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| TIP: | 203 |
| Title: | Create tclConfig.sh-Equivalent in Tcl |
| Version: | $Revision: 1.1 $ |
| Author: | Colin McCormack <coldstore at users dot sourceforge dot net> |
| State: | Draft |
| Type: | Project |
| Tcl-Version: | 8.5 |
| Vote: | Pending |
| Created: | Thursday, 17 June 2004 |
| Discussions To: | http://mini.net/tcl/tclConfig.sh |
| Keywords: | configuration, installation |
This proposal requires the build-time creation of a file tclConfig.tcl that is equivalent to tclConfig.sh in both logical content and location.
Packages such as Critcl[1], and indeed anything which tries to build extensions under Tcl need more introspection to discover the ground rules of construction in the installation in which they find themselves.
In order to facilitate such future build tools, the build information should be made available to Tcl scripts.
The web page http://mini.net/tcl/tclConfig.sh contains a parser to understand a tclConfig.sh and set variables in the ::tclConfig namespace.
Anything similar would suffice, whether it's added to a dict under info, tcl_platform, or placed in a namespace doesn't greatly matter.
This document has been placed in the public domain.
This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.