Version 6 of Official library of extensions

Updated 2001-11-09 09:17:16

Initiated by Bryan Oakley on news:comp.lang.tcl Dejanews thread waaayyy back in early 1999: [L1 ]

Extensions which are already considered as official [by whom? Who makes the decision that Tk is official and other extensions are not?] and included in the standard distribution of Tcl or Tk. [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.]

In Tcl, there is:

  • 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
  • http
  • dde (Win32 specific)
  • registry (Win32 specific)
  • Tclapplescript (MacOS specific)
  • resource (MacOS specific)
  • msgcat
  • Stubs

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
  • control
  • counter Event counters, interval timers, and histogram display
  • csv
  • 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
  • javascript Javascript generation procedures
  • log
  • math Common math functions like min, max, and others.
  • md5
  • 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
  • sha1
  • smtp Simple mail transport protocol implementation. Part of mime.
  • struct Tcl implementations of common data structures (tree, stack, graph)
  • textutil
  • uri Manipulate universal resource indicators/location strings

Tklib: pure-Tcl extension from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/

Proposed extensions:

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