Initiated by [Bryan Oakley] on news:comp.lang.tcl Dejanews thread waaayyy back in early 1999: [http://x3.dejanews.com/thread/447256341] ---- For some reason, someone felt it necessary to create [Tcl core extension syntax]. ---- Extensions which are already considered as ''official'' and included in the standard distribution of Tcl or Tk. [[by whom? Who makes the decision that Tk is official and other extensions are not?]] [[I don't really get this official-vs-unofficial thing. What the community needs is a _large_ BI release which the community can update regularly and easily themselves. That'll never happen with some official thing that has a bottleneck of one or two people (or even 10 people) as gatekeepers -- there are too many extensions and too many platforms that they need to be compiled on. Perhaps one acceptable half-way situation would be that there's a bottleneck on who can *add* new modules, but then anyone can compile an existing module and upload the platform specific binary for their platform.]] [[Here's my take on the deal. The [TCT] has a limited number of resources. They have volunteered to oversee the development and maintenance of Tcl and Tk. They do not have the time or energy to develop and maintain thousands of other extensions. So this page reflects those extensions to Tcl that the TCT is shepherding. If someone wants them to include another extension into this group, they need to submit a [TIP] for that action, discuss it over with the TCT, and work with them to get things done. See the [Batteries Included] page for a list of those people in the community working towards a central repository. If someone in the community wants to see something different than this, then they can feel free to start making it happen in some positive manner.]] In Tcl, there is: * [dde] (Win32 specific) * [encoding] * [http] * [opt]/optparse [Chris Nelson] said that he would like to work on this one, and that he already had made some speed improvements. I submitted those improvements and I believe they'll be in 8.4 but N.B., the opt package is officially deprecated. -- [CLN] * [registry] (Win32 specific) * Tcl[applescript] (MacOS specific) * [resource] (MacOS specific) * [msgcat] * [Stubs] * [tcltest] ---- [Tk] - a seperate source and binary distribution Is there any additional extensions that come in Tk? ---- [Tcllib]: pure-Tcl extension from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/ The 1.1 version of [tcllib] includes the following modules: * [base64] Base64 encoder and decoder. * [cmdline] Command line argument processor similar to opt. * [comm] Socket based '''send''' command, communication * [control] New control structures/commands * [counter] Event counters, interval timers, and histogram display * [csv] Handling of comma separated data, arbitrary separators, not just comma * [fileutil] Tcl implementations of some standard Unix utilities. * [ftp] Implementation of an ftp client.. * [ftpd] FTP server * [html] HTML generation procedures. This uses ncgi. * [htmlparse] Parsing HTML strings * [javascript] Javascript generation procedures * [log] Customizable logging and tracing * [math] Common math functions like min, max, and others. * [md5] MD5 secure hash * [mime] MIME encoder and decoder. * [ncgi] New CGI processing module. * [nntp] Network news transport protocol client support * [pop3] POP3 protocol implementation * [profiler] Function level Tcl source code profiler * [report] Tabular reports for matrices * [sha1] SHA1 secure hash * [smtp] Simple mail transport protocol implementation. Part of [mime]. * [struct] Tcl implementations of common data structures (tree, stack, graph) * [textutil] Additional string manipulatrion utilities. * [uri] Manipulate universal resource indicators/location strings ---- [Tklib]: pure-Tcl extension from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/ ---- Proposed extensions: * [Additional list functions]. * [Additional string functions]. * Simple additional [package management] functionality. * [Additional math functions]. * Additional file function [tailf] ---- Others: Object-Oriented support, megawidgets, ensembles, telnet, more image file format support - like png, jpg, etc., more Tk widgets, generic database interface, replacement for send that works cross platform and without requiring x, drag and drop,... ''Remark'': The proposed extensions are something I believe that most will agree should be part of the library. In the "Others" section I listed everything else I could remember. We might have to discuss their placement. -- [AK]