Re: [ECOS] The John's Ousterhout Tcl 6.7 under eCos

[Sergei Gavrikov <w3sg at SoftHome dot net>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:05:07PM +0300, Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > You will have the old, good, full featured Tcl 6.7 from John Ousterhout
> > under eCos. There will be one limitation for this port. You won't get
> > support for the pipelines and Tcl exec command. But, if you want to get
> > a shell, or get a glue, or have an instrument, that Tcl does it all.

> Do you have time to make an eCos package out of this? Put it in
> packages/services/tcl?
>
>        Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I am a bit busy now, but I plan to make such a package in the one of my
weekends before September. And I would want ask you about a suitable place
in the eCos repository for this package. I think what in future somebody
can start same work porting another version of Tcl for eCos. It seems,
it will be the best if those Tcl packages will occupy a general branch,
the services/tcl. So, I plan to place the first Tcl 6.7 package under
services/tcl/tcl6.7 branch. Well, I think folk would be to choose one of
the Tcl packages by Tcl's version (no eCos package version), for example

	ecosconfig add libtcl6.7
	ecosconfig add libtcl7.4

or even choose a whole template, like

	ecosconfig new pid tcl6.7

RFC: Is it correct for the eCos package ideology?

Sergei


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