Version 4 of Sexy Starkits

Updated 2002-09-17 05:06:37

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


i hate magic

There is no presupposition about how your files are arranged other than that the top level main.tcl is to be interpreted at launch [L1 ].

Unlike some other wrapping methods there isn't an enforced or assumed layout.


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. [L2 ] Now starkits are by default read-only (r/o) [L3 ], 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! ;>


Category TclKit