Richard Suchenwirth 2006-01-29 - Sepp (in the usual Titlecase capitalization) stands for "Simple experimenting platform, pocket edition". (In southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland it is also a nickname for Josef). I've been coding on Sepp for some weeks now without having a name for it - now Sepp shall be it.
See IDE: from cathedral to patchwork bazaar for some historical notes. Sepp shall be my patchwork bazaar (and as usual, I'll be glad to share it here on the Wiki). A set of little components, just as I need them, that can be tested on a desktop, too, but designed for best usability on a PocketPC running eTcl - the reason is that this distribution first allows good toplevel alternation, and wide menus. Most of the code should run on other PocketPC distros, or wherever.
Design principles (under construction :^):
- Some components provide Tcl procs without UI, for use in the console, or in other components
- Others will do their job in a toplevel, either transient (destroyed on FocusOut) or longer-lived. None shall occupy the standard "." toplevel.
- Components offer their services via tclIndex. "Exported" services come as procs in ::, while internals are slightly hidden in a namespace
- Services are made available by adding them to the console menu
- procs shall be no longer than 20 lines, lines no longer than ~40 characters, for convenient editing on the little thing itself
Wiki pages for existing components:
- e: a tiny editor plugin for eTcl
- encoview as eTcl plugin
- htext as eTcl plugin
- iconview as eTcl plugin
- more as eTcl plugin
- registrar as eTcl plugin
- colorview as eTcl plugin
- Extending the eTcl console
- A tiny version control
- Unixy minitools