Single-file starpacks

A starpack is a special versions of a starkit, which combines a starkit with a tclkit runtime into a single file.

Starpacks are standalone executables which run out of the box, making them even easier to distribute and use than starkits. This convenience does introduce a number of trade-offs:

Note that starpacks use the same packaging mechanism as starkits, their content can be listed and extracted with the SDX utility. The main difference is that the "header" is a large executable file, and that the files stored inside include all the standard Tcl/Tk runtime support files.


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