> > Maurice, I would appreciate your further comments on the itcl situation. > Is > it not compatible with tcl 8.5 because that version of Tcl uses its own OO > approach or is OO not going to be available at all for the Tcl future > unless > somebody starts actively supporting itcl? >
The traditional problem with Itcl has always been that it uses the Tcl internals (which are not meant to be used by extensions). I do not know enough about Itcl to comment on the current situation, but it has not been actively maintained. The problem with OO in Tcl is not the lack of it, but the abundance. There are quite a few approaches to OO: Itcl is one, but XOTcl, Snit, Stooop and Tao are a few others. Recently, one of the Tcl Core Team members, Donal Fellows, has taken up the challenge of providing a unifying framework inside the Tcl core (available as an extension called TclOO), but it will take some work still to make it suitable for all these various approaches. Work on Itcl has been picked by Arnulf Wiedermann, who is re-implementing it to cooperate in a nicer way with the Tcl core and the TclOO framework. Well, the above is a trifle detailed perhaps, but I thought it a good idea to explain the developments at this front. Regards, Arjen (who uses Tcl a lot ;)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
