Re: [Simulavr-devel] Undo the fork ...

[Joel Sherrill]

On 03/23/2010 08:51 AM, Petr Hluzín wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 23 March 2010 12:26, ThomasK<address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > - in our fork we have marked TCL interface deprecated! In the current state
> > it looks awful (hi Petr, I agree with you for gitk and this is the same, I
> > think ;-) ) and we have nobody to maintain it! If anybody out there, which
> > wants to maintain it, then I agree to hold it!
> >      
> Yeah, Tcl user interface looks ugly. The language looks weird -
> however the same can be said about Python (which I somehow like). So I
> am doing devil's advocate here.
>
> What is the current state of Tcl interface?
> Does it have bugs?
> Does it lack some functionality?
> Or everything is fine and it just lacks a maintainer?
>
>    
I also am curious what is wrong with it.  I haven't had
much time to work on it recently but was actually using
the Tcl interface to build a custom system simulator and
it seemed to be working fine.
> I believe the maintaining of a language binding is minor once SWIG
> part is done (for any language).
> Perhaps we can just mark it "incomplete" so that users can use it and
> if they really desire they might contribute improved Tcl binding.
>
> I think the costs and dangers are small compared to dropping peoples'
> pet language. I might guess wrong.
>
>    


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