by [Mark Roseman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=441872194]

''Bryan Oakley managed to hijack the newsgroup this week for a lengthy exchange on how best to provide usable documentation; some good insights if you're into that sort of thing. Megawidget fans can also enjoy the thread on how to provide the best support for building new widgets.''

   * Freshmeat is an extremely popular service you can use to announce your Tcl extensions (and other software) specifically to Linux users http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/tcl-extensions.html
   * Sean Woods posted a Tcl channel driver for accessing serial ports on the Macintosh (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=441770632])
   * Bryan Oakley kicks off a discussion about using a Tk text widget dump as a quick-loading documentation viewer, in conjunction with XML, man pages, Windows help and others (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/440414571]) (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/440684551])
   * The "Widget Wish List" thread also brought up many issues with regard to megawidget implementation approaches (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/438750321])
   * Scott Stanton describes how "file extension" will be corrected in upcoming Tcl releases (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=439952701])
   * David Welton released mod_dtcl, an Apache module allowing you to add Tcl code to your HTML pages (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=439641798])





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