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From: Brett Schwarz <[email protected]>
To: L J Bayuk <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Chris Ryan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: tcl on gborg, pgtclsh
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:32:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


--- L J Bayuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:

<snip>

> > Good points, thanks ... LJ, any chance you'd be
> willing to 'maintain'
> > these on gborg?
> 
> Yes and no.
> 
> I do have pgtclsh and pgwish (which I renamed from
> pgtksh) in my project.
> They build and test OK, but I moved them to an
> "extra" directory, labeled
> them as "deprecated", and do not provide
> auto-configure.  Also, I won't
> include support for building them on Windows.  In my
> opinion, it's so much
> better to use dynamic package loading with Tcl, that
> it makes no sense to
> link a specific extension into a Tcl shell anymore. 
> "package require
> Pgtcl" is the way to go. But if anyone really needs
> the pg* shells, they
> can edit a few lines in the Makefile and build them.
> 

I agree with the above assessment about pgtclsh and
pgtksh

> However... shortly after I created a new project on
> Gborg for my version of
> the Tcl interface, the original Gborg pgtcl project
> started getting
> updates. I don't know what Brett's plans are, but

My plans are to keep working on pgtcl. Not sure if
this answers your question or not...if  you want me to
expand upon that, then let me know.

    --brett


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