Welcome to [Rohan Pall]'s hints on how to use those '''sexy starkits!'''

A ton of this info was lifted from others, so relax and enjoy their hard work ;)  I've made all the hints into seperate pages so others can add to them, and to facilitate links.

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[No Magic or Policy in Starkits]

[Inspecting Your New Starkit]

[Writing to Your Starkit]

[Starkit Meet Zip]


'''inspecting your gift'''

What are starkits doing when you do the following in your toplevel main.tcl file:
  package require starkit
  starkit::startup
  package require app-hello

Look inside the box:
  cp tclkit tcopy
  sdx unwrap tcopy

Now look at "tcopy.vfs/lib/vfs/*.tcl" to see what is going on inside, its all plain Tcl, no magic ;)  Thanks [jcw].

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'''writable writeable vfs'''

I packaged my mindweb app in a starkit.  All its data was also stored in the starkit.  I had read somewhere that by default starkits were writable (r/w) but this in fact has changed over summer 2002.
[http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=jcw-147A42.16572031052002%40news1.xs4all.nl]
Now starkits are by default read-only (r/o) [http://trixie.triqs.com/pipermail/starkit/2002-July/000089.html], but the documentation is lagging behind that fact.

You make your starkit writable by doing it at wrap time:
  sdx wrap app.kit -writable

''2002-09-17 (September 17, 2002)'' sdx doesnt give any hints that this option exists when displaying help with
  sdx help wrap
but it does indeed exist! ;>

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'''starkit meet zip file'''

This is just another '''wow''' feature.  There are gems just waiting to be picked up in starkits, and here is one that I found while unpacking and reading the tclkit, in "./lib/vfs/zipvfs.tcl"

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[Category TclKit]