Migrate to Tcl/Tk & OpenSSH #4
Description
Unfortunately our current PyInstaller based build system has some downsides. After spending a lot of time and frustration we were still not able to produce application binaries anymore on certain systems. Due to our limited time and lack of knowledge about the internals of PyInstaller we were not able to track down the cause of the problem.
Therefore we've decided to migrate the application from Python to Tcl/Tk. This allows us to implement an easier and more flexible build system. Based on precompiled tclkit binaries it is possible to cross compile the application for all supported target systems on a single machine without any hassle.
Besides the application itself all build scripts were ported from Bash & Batch to Tcl/Tk. This means, that we don't need to provide separate build scripts for Windows anymore. The build scripts can be used on every operating system with an installed Tcl environment. If that is not possible, one might also use one of the provided tclkit binaries in order to execute the build scripts.
Unfortunately there is no comparable alternative to Paramiko available for Tcl. Therefore we're using OpenSSH for SSH tunneling. Linux and Mac OS X are providing OpenSSH out of the box. For Windows systems we've integrated the binaries provided by mls-software.com.