Re: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?

["Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Jean-Sebastien Trottier writes:

    > Hi All (and Chris in particular),

    > I've already been successful in getting the following to compile as
    > "native" Cygwin packages with minimal patches:
    >     Tcl v8.4.7 (without registry and DDE)
    >     Tk v8.4.7
    >     Itcl v3.2.1 with Iwidgets v4.0.1
    >     expect v5.42.1

    > I also intend to add Tclx and Tcllib and try to port the registry and
    > DDE libraries (part of Tcl) that are normally only for straight Windows
    > platform.

    > Of course, I don't mind becoming maintainer for these packages...

    > I just want to know if there's actual interest for this, or else I'll
    > stop wasting my time...

    > Let me know what you think.

+1*10^10

These are great news, I think cgf is already dreaming about a gold star,
if you follow your way through the end.

Some questions:

 - Did you manage to compile the libs as shared libs
 - Is wish working for you, last time I tried, it started up but was not
   response to any input

    > Cheers,
    > Sebastien

Ciao
  Volker