A good test of how good the 'vfs' support is in Tcl 8.4a4 (with the vfs package) is to take some code that was not designed with a vfs in mind and see if it still works.

The ''Tkhtml'' package comes with a script 'hv.tcl' which can be used as a local .html browser.  We can test whether it works with remote files over a vfs:

   set site "http://www.scriptics.com"
   package require vfs; vfs::urltype::Mount http; set argc 1; set argv [list $site]; source hv.tcl

and, after a couple of second's delay, we actually get the page, and we can browse the web...
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[RS] Hmm.. I'd call and format that as a six-liner.. also: why is ''site'' set twice? Who sets ''$file''? If you manipulate ''argc'', what value has ''argv''? I don't understand this example. 
'''sorry; fixed the example -- 'six-liner' didn't sound as good as 1'''.
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Has anyone had luck compiling this on a Solaris machine? I haven't had such luck (using the latest cvs source). Sure would like to use this.

Marty Backe

What kind of problems did you have?  Compile errors, or the configure/make stuff didn't work? If the former, then please report a bug on tclvfs, if  the latter, then that's just the 'TEA' mess, and you're probably best asking on comp.lang.tcl
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Marty, I recommend you move these comments over to the [vfs] page itself, rather than here.  I almost lost sight of where I had seen your comments!

I have built tclvfs on sparc/solaris - but it is too buggy to run.
I've reported my bug to the sf.net bug list. [LV]
There are preview stand-alone builds of [TclKit] for Windows and Linux, which use the new VFS core and include support for the above example (see [http://www.equi4.com/previews/]).  I have not yet packaged the adjusted sources, which are essentially off-the-shelf Tcl, Tk, MetaKit, and TclVfs releases... -- [JCW]