At the 9th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference in Vancouver, September, 2002,
[Don Porter] led a ``Birds of a Feather'' session on various
issues and proposals concerning Tcl's [[package]] command.

Here are the notes he prepared, transferred from the 
''personal Wiki'' built on the fly using tools on the
conference CD.  Not all of these topics were discussed
during the hour.

Continue the discussion by editing these notes in the usual
Wiki-style.

'''Big picture items'''
   * [package BoF: Impact of VFS]

'''Particular problems'''
   * [package BoF: selection of alternate packages/implementations]
   * [package BoF: app control over package loading time/place (TIP 92)]
   * [package BoF: dealing with multiple variants]

'''Changes to [[package]] subcommands'''

   * [package BoF: recognize alpha/beta version numbers]
   * [package BoF: PACKAGE REQUIRE support for RANGES of acceptable versions]

'''New [[package]] subcommands'''
   * [package BoF: install-side of PACKAGE UNKNOWN]
   * [package BoF: higher level dependency management]
   * [package BoF: PACKAGE ABOUT - metadata]
   * [package BoF: PACKAGE INDEX - alternative to pkg_mkIndex]
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