Purpose: collect information about the [starkit] called Kitten.
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Someone (dgp?) recently on the wiki chatroom observed that the idea of kitten is to turn a tclkit/starkit 2 file deployment into a 3 file deployment (unless of course you merge your application with either the kitten or tclkit starkit).
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What: kitten
Where: http://www.equi4.com/wikis/equi4/201
       http://tcl.tk/sdarchive
Description:   Kitten is a [tclkit] collection of Tcl/Tk extensions aimed at reducing the work 
       a developer has to do while developing a starkit.  It contains script and compiled extensions like [tcllib], [BWidget], [expat], 
       [Expect], [incr Widgets], [mclistbox], [mpexpr], [narray], a tcl parser, an sgml parser, [tclSOAP], [stooop], [Supertext], 
       [tdom], [Tix], [Tktable], [tclXML], [tkHtml], [ClassyTk] and others. 
       Binary extensions are compiled for Windows, Linux, and Solaris as possible. Last updated in 2004.
Updated: 02/2003
Contact: See web site.
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To use kitten, download it from above (it's about 4 Mb).  If all you want to do is use the included packages from your application running under tclkit (over 130 by now), then nothing could be simpler:
    source kitten.kit
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By executing the command "tclkit kitten.kit", you get a GUI-based embedded help system (based on [Wikit]).
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By running "tclkit kitten.kit -l", you get a list of packages present in kitten, as well as their version number(s).  On Windows, use "tclkitsh.exe kitten.kit -l", since this is command-line based.

''(Older output of "kitten -l" removed, the Kitten home page [http://www.equi4.com/wikis/equi4/201] has a better listing now, 142 packages on Linux at last count)''
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''Jan 2003 - The "-u" update flag is no longer functional.''
It is being replaced by a far more generic and efficient mechanism.
Work is in progress, no ETA yet. -[jcw]

'''Feb 2004''' - actually, there has been a replacement mechanism for many months now: "[sdx] update kitten.kit" will update only modified files.  FWIW, I've updated tcllib in it to the just-released 1.6. -[jcw]
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Unsolicited response:  this is stunning.
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[Steve Landers] characterizes Kitten as "nothing more than an experiment ... this is how you might build a [BI]--if you wanted to."  Even so, it's within 10% of 'producthood'.
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Kitten is constructed as a regular [starkit], with one change to make its use convenient for sourceing, in main.tcl, the line "starkit::startup" has been replaced by:
    if {[starkit::startup] == "sourced"} return
With this, "source kitten" simply sets things up and then makes all its packages available in the caller.
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See [Considerations when adding extensions to Kitten] for discussions
on cross-platform deployement in this wonderful package.

See also [sdx], the Starkit Developer eXtension used to create starkits.
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[lexfiend] ''2007-12-30'': Looks like there haven't been updates to Kitten in a while, and it's no longer in the new Equi4 wiki (I've changed all links above to point to their old wiki. Has it been abandoned?
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