Re: [TCLCORE] Packaging of "redistributed software" for Tcl 8.6

Joe English wrote:
> As a matter of fact (AIUI -- dgp, please correct me if I'm wrong)> one of the prerequisites for inclusion under tcl/pkgs/ is that there> be an official released tarball.  So no worries there: independent> releases of everything under tcl/pkgs/ will always be available,> by policy.

That's the plan.  We've fudged the issue slightly with tdbc because

   1) these are the first releases of tdbc, so the process there is
      still getting formed;
   2) projects kept in fossil, like tdbc, to my eye appear a bit unusual
      about releases.  I can't decide if everything is a release, or
      nothing is.  Suffice to say everything we've called a release and
      put onto the vendor branch corresponds to (a portion of) a zip file
      available online to anyone;
   3) Simple favoritism, since it's kbk we're dealing with.

But once the system is well established, that's the intended policy, 
yes.  Redistribute only unchanged copies of third party releases.

> My preference would be for two Tcl tarballs; a "BI" version> with pkgs/ fully populated and a "naked" version that has> just Tcl and only Tcl.

I don't object to that.  I'll have the pieces anyway, so making them
available for separate download isn't a large additional burden.

The actual value of this is not as clear to me as it is to others,
but if it will help people and doesn't take too much effort, I don't
see a reason to say no.

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| Don Porter          Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| dona...@nist.gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
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