[George Peter Staplin]: Mar 21, 2005 - '''Megapkg''' is a bunch of packages/extensions that I've '''written in C''' for Tcl/Tk.  It also contains 2 window managers named [Whim window manager], and [Panache] that use Tcl/Tk and the extensions.  The [Whim window manager] was sponsored and patched by [Steve Redler IV], and we may announce it soon.

http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg

The licensing is BSD-like.

'''Megapkg''' has a radical source tree layout (by some standards).  All *.c files are generated with [Fed Builder], so there are 3 files per function (csrc, plan, and C).  There is only one file to compile ${Ext}_Init.c per extension.  The ${Ext}_Init.c file for the particular extension #includes a header file.  The header file defines structures, and #includes many C source files (usually).  Some of the code currently is from my old packages that I want to revive, such as [TkXext], [Tk_Theme], bz2, and so on.  So, you may wonder, what's the beef of the code, or how much code is it: 

 $ cd csrc/

 $ wc *.c *.h
  6382   16809  143241 total

But, as they say, it isn't about how much code you have, but rather what you do with it.  See also; RS :)

Plans for the future:
   * Shaped parent windows for Whim.
   * An XDBE extension.
   * A libtool work-alike for building the extensions, because gcc -shared may not be available everywhere.
   * A rewrite of Panache to use the [megapkg structure extension] rather than [Smalltick].
   * A few widgets that will replace the [Smalltick] widgets.
   * A more advanced configuration system that may use [tickmake].
   * More tests would be good.  I want every code path to be tested before every release, so that no runtime faults occur.  structure_test.tcl is close to this.
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