TODO:
1. Installation and Getting Started Guide - how to install the Tcl suite on various platforms and some basic advice for newbies. Maybe it would be good to have some HOWTOs:
*Sun-Install-HOWTO *HPUX-Install-HOWTO *Debian-Install-HOWTO *RedHat-Install-HOWTO
and s.o.
2.Extensions Use Guide - what kinds of extensions exist and what kinds of use can each of them be used. Maybe:
- TclX-Extension-HOWTO - itcl-Extension-HOWTO and s.o
3.Extensions Programmer Guide - how to write extensions so there aren't collisions. (LV: This is basically the Tcl Extension Architecture TEA.)
I think writing some kind of Extension manager is good. This needs to be something like Debian dselect tool or Redhat RPM, some program that will know what extensions are installed, in which directory, where the config files for this extension are located, whether there are collisions with some other extension etc.
4.Tcl/Tk Core Hackers Guide - more about core of the Tcl suite. Some map of the Tcl/Tk core sources.
5.Guide to using Tcl/Tk as a C library rather than a programming language.
6.Guide to extending Tcl/Tk with standalone executables and IPC, instead of loadable/static extensions.
There used to be a mailing list for TTDP:
URL for registration: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/ttdp
Subscribe through email:
Archive of all messages is available. http://www.onelist.com/arcindex.cgi?listname=ttdp
The address to which you send emails is mailto:[email protected] .
The site formerly known as onelist.com was sold sometime ago to egroups.com - now that egroups.com also has been sold to yahoo.com, I find the above no longer appears to work - anyone know where the project resides these days? (LV as far as I am aware, the project was fairly low volume anyways - few people seemed to be involved in improving the Tcl docs. I don't know that it went anywhere.)
I'm really interested in knowing whether there is a PDF collecting all Tcl, Tk, and related extension man pages...
LV Someone asked about a PDF collecting everything. I don't know about that, but http://tmml.sourceforge.net/coredocs.html has an up to date HTML formatted set of web pages. Perhaps they would consider adding man pages for other extensions? If so, someone might be able to put together software to convert it into a PDF...
LV From a discussion on the chat room:
I hypothesize that there are at least 4 layers of doc that a language needs: