Version 7 of Official library of extensions

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

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:

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:

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