Version 4 of Tcl Packaging Glossary

Updated 2018-10-22 19:00:57 by hypnotoad

Hypnotoad Writes:

When dealing with Tcl packaging, our conventional terms for things get fuzzy.

Here are the cases that Hypnotoad has encountered in his travels, and needs the community to come to a consensus about what to call them:

 1. A binary executable that can take on a VFS payload but has not yet
 2. A VFS that contains libraries of tools for a general purpose shell.
 3. A #1 that has #2 attached
 4. A VFS that acts as a single application
 5. A #1 that has #4 attached
 6. A VFS that acts as a suite of tools, which tool is decided by command line arguments
 7. A #1 that has #6 attached
 8. A Binary package that requires a pure-tcl package to be co-installed
 9. A Pure-Tcl package that exists solely to service a binary package
 10. A #8 which is bundled in a VFS
 11. A #8 which is statically linked to an executable
 12. A #9 which is installed in a VFS
 13. A #9 which is appended to the end of a dynamic library
 14. A collection of pure-tcl packages that can be broken apart (ala Tcllib)
 15. A standalone package that is within Item #14
 16. #15, installed in a VFS
 17. A C accelerated alternative to a #15 which is embedded in a DLL installed to a VFS
 18. A C accelerated alternative to a #15 which is statically linked to a #1
 19. A collection of #17s that are assembled into a dynamic library
 20. A collection of #17s that are assembled into a static library
 21. A #1 which contains a starter VFS for bootstrapping but is not the object's final form