I thought the whole point you were making was that if we require that
Tcl be built with threads then we could remove the JAVA_LOCK stuff.
How do you suggest we implement locking in a non thread enabled version
of Tcl if we are not going to use the current JAVA_LOCK approach?
Mo Dejong
Red Hat Inc.
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jiang Wu wrote:
> Will the C based Tcl extensions work the same with the threaded version of
> Tcl versus the non-threaded Tcl? One reason for using TclBlend is to access
> these extensions such as Expect and Scotty.
>
> I don't really see why we need to require the multi-threaded Tcl. If
> TclBlend works with multi-threaded Tcl, then it should work with a
> non-threaded Tcl. There needs to be better documentation clarifying things
> such as "when using non-threaded Tcl, you can't create a second interpreter
> in a different thread."
>
> But if the threaded Tcl has no problem with the extensions, then I will be
> OK with requiring threaded Tcl with TclBlend.
>
> -- Jiang Wu
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mo DeJong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:25 PM
> To: Scott Redman
> Cc: Jiang Wu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Tcl Java] Re: [Tcl Java] RE: [Tcl Java] RE: [Tcl Java] Thread
> question in TclBlend
>
>
> I have no problem with requiring that Tcl be compiled with --enable-threads
> in order to work with Tcl Blend. Keep in mind that this will be yet another
> nail in the coffin of a "pre built" binary version of Tcl Blend. Frankly,
> I think the 1.3 release should include no pre built binaries for any
> paltforms. If folks want to build on windows they will need to install
> Cygwin and or Mingwin.
>
> Mo Dejong
> Red Hat Inc.
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Scott Redman wrote:
>
> > I think we should just require Tcl to be thread-enabled
> > (as long as Tk will work with it, which is being looked
> > into for 8.4).
> >
> > -- Scott
> >
>
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