Re: [TCLCORE] ::tcl::pkgconfig error

At some point when I'm not consumed with release issues, if
I were to propose a reform to make [tcl::pkgconfig] less prone
to failure along these lines, I would say we take away the ability
for the builder to set the encoding at all.  Just declare that the
values have to be stored in the binary in utf-8 and define
the problem out of existence by fiat.

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From: Porter, Don [dona...@nist.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:55 AM
To: Jan Nijtmans; tcl-...@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Rene Zaumseil
Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] ::tcl::pkgconfig error

No, it would be better for the builder of the Tclkit to set
the TCL_CFGVAL_ENCODING to either iso8859-1 or
utf-8 in the first place, and use the encoding selected
to store the values in the binary.

The builder is given this knob to turn for a reason.
Just use it.
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From: Jan Nijtmans [nijt...@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:46 AM
To: tcl-...@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Rene Zaumseil
Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] ::tcl::pkgconfig error

2012/11/14 Porter, Don <dona...@nist.gov>:
>> So is there something special for windows?>> Please see Joe Mistachkin's fix.>> http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/be9a7049d7

Joe's fix helps when the tclkit is still in the
build environment, but - unfortunately -
tcl::pkgconfig is not forgiving at all when
the specified encoding is not
found. Wouldn't a fall-back to "iso8859-1"
then be better?

Experiment doing this is in branch "forgiving-pkgconfig".
I'm not sure it's a good idea now, because the
fundamental problem - unavailability of some
encoding - is not solved yet. But apart from that,
I wonder if tcl::pkgconfig isn't too harsh on that anyway.

See: <http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/4cc7e2a948>

Regards,
        Jan Nijtmans

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