From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3f5eac257a588ae5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: sjw Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: TASH (TclAdaSHell) futures Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:00:57 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.49.19.209 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1230674457 6073 127.0.0.1 (30 Dec 2008 22:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.49.19.209; posting-account=_RXWmAoAAADQS3ojtLFDmTNJCT0N2R4U User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3140 Date: 2008-12-30T14:00:57-08:00 List-Id: While working on using TASH on a recent Linux system we found a problem with Tcl/Tk releases later than 8.4 (for example, Ubuntu 8.04 has Tcl/Tk 8.5). TASH has three levels of implementation: very thin (a binding to the C headers using pragma Import, in eg unit Tcl), thin (using more Ada- like constructs, in eg Tcl.Ada) and thick (exporting Tcl facilities such as file handling and sparse arrays, in eg Tash.Arrays). Unfortunately, the thick binding relies on C interfaces that were never intended to be public and have been hidden (made private) in Tcl/ Tk 8.5 and later, and there doesn't seem to be a way round this without a lot of work. Are there any TASH users out there who have strong views on this? whose projects depend on Tash.* facilities? If so, comments please, here or at SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? forum_id=558610).