Version 8 of TclApp

Updated 2011-06-09 11:51:32 by oehhar

A tool for wrapping, i.e. rapid and easy deployment of an application and its supporting packages and files.

It is part of ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit (doc [L1 ]) and the sucessor of the older prowrap.

In contrast to that tool, which uses a limited ad-hoc variant of a virtual filesystem specifically written for it, TclApp is based on the complete and generic virtual filesystem of Tcl 8.4. It generates metakit-based starkits and starpacks.

Beyond that TclApp is capable of directly wrapping packages without the user being forced to specify all files in the package during wrapping. This is handled through package definition files which contain all the necessary information.

A companion tool, the TclApp Package Editor can be used to create and edit such files.


See http://www.ActiveState.com/Webcasts/Tcl_Dev_Kit/recordings for information from a webcast relating to the application.


  Virtual file system structure compared to sdx

HaO 2011-06-09 The virtual file system folder structure of tclapp differes to sdx in the following way:

WhattclappsdxRemarks
Wrap pathMP/MP/lib/application/MP is the virtual mount point
Start fileMP/main.tclOption -startfileOn Tclapp, an autogenerated file MP/main.tcl starts the chosen startfile
starkit startupin main.tclin autogenerated main.tclpackage require starkit and starkit::startup

For both, starkit::topdir returns the mount point of the script.

Some words about ekit: they behave like starkits but have the topdir in etcl::starkit.