[Starkit] filleting tcllib

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Arjen Markus wrote:

> Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>
>> Has anyone given any thought to a method for filleting tcllib, i.e.
>> specifying a list of packages known to be required, [...]
>
> Most of the time I only need one or two packages and figuring out
> which to include has been relatively simple sofar.
>
> Perhaps rather than a programmatic solution, we should provide
> a chart depicting which packages are required by which others?

A simple text file which contains all "A depends on B" dependencies  
as a Tcl-readable text file, say as "A B\n" lines could go a long way.

Could add a third item perhaps, for cases where dependencies are  
platform-specific or depend on the presence of other packages.  Easy  
to ignore for simple-minded uses of this datafile.

I'd vote for having such a text file included in the tcllib distro,  
then anyone can come up with whatever automation scripts they like.   
Let's make a start with dependency-awareness in the world of Tcl  
packages, without it we'll never reach any sort of repository solution!

-jcw