Why the partial Tcl 8.3 install?
Why the partial Tcl 8.3 install?
- Subject: Why the partial Tcl 8.3 install?
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:07:00 -0700
By way of background, I'm working on mkmf.rb, a clever script in the
standard Ruby distribution which detects "extensions" on the host system,
generates a makefile, and calls the C compiler to produce glue so Ruby
scripts can access that extension. Mkmf has been missing some stuff on the
NeXTish systems, Mac OS X and Simply GNUStep Linux, because it doesn't
understand frameworks.
So I thought I had a framework aware version of mkmf and decided to test it
by installing Tk/Tcl 8.4 on my Mac and seeing if mkmf would build tcltklib
for Ruby.
I was surprised that mkmf found the 8.4 headers but an 8.3 lib. A little
checking revealed that while Macs don't have Tk installed by default, They
do have pieces of Tcl. Some of it's in /usr/lib and some in
/System/Libraries.
I'm just curious as to why the 8.3 Tcl stuff is installed by default.
--
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they
ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -Solon, statesman
(c. 638-c558 BCE)
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