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From: kennykb@dssv01.crd.ge.com (Kevin B. Kenny)
Subject: Re: extensibility (was: Why you should not use Tcl)
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In article <jwshin.780707862@resonance.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Jinwoo Shin writes:

|> Your doesn't??? Mine does, except mine's a size of a card deck!
|> Anyhow, since we have somehow digressed from flamewar to
|> extensibility ... I was wondering is there anyone who is going to
|> implement dynamic library loading for Tcl?  There are more
|> "extentions" to Tcl that one can imagine, and it isn't always
|> pretty trying to write a wish with Tcl-DP + TclSIPP + expect + TclX
|> + Good + Blt + Photo + ..... I've read Tclworkship 94 paper on why
|> it is very difficult but can't someone atleast propose a draft of a
|> possible approach that we can take on this subject?

I'm working in it, except that `real' work keeps intruding.

If you want to look at my working copy, it's in

    ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/pub/kevin/tclLoad-alpha0.4.tar.gz

I welcome testers, particularly on untried platforms...

73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY	GE Corporate R&D, Niskayuna, New York, USA
