Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl GSoC 2011 - Ideas anyone ?

Will Duquette wrote:
> [...]> And here's the real difference between the Tcl/Tk core and extensions:> when the extension author loses interest or need or funding for work> on the extension, development ceases, bugs don't get fixed, and the> extension becomes unusable. Stuff in the core, precisely because it's> the core, attracts bug fixes at least.


That goes both ways, though.

Stuff in the core tends to be robust, stable, maintainable,
and reliable precisely because we try to only let robust,
stable, maintainable, and reliable code in in the first place.


> I know that I've frequently wanted a robust HTML or HTML-like> widget in Tk; it is frequently a useful way to present information.> But TkHTML 2 has minimal functionality and a number of annoying> quirks, and is unmaintained; TkHTML 3 is much better, but has a> number of annoying quirks and rendering bugs (at least on OS X> and Linux), and is unmaintained.

Putting TkHTML 2 or TkHTML 3 in the core won't automatically fix
any of those problems.  Indeed, a necessary prerequisite for
putting either of them in would be to find a willing maintainer
who would first fix the quirks and bugs.


--Joe English

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