Determining available packages?

[jerry...@gmail.com]

Does anyone have a script that will return a list of
*all* available packages?

I have about 4 different versions of tcl/tk on various
computers and keeping track of what is available is
getting sticky :)

Thanks

Jerry

[Jeff Godfrey]

<jerry...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129246720.6...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Does anyone have a script that will return a list of
> *all* available packages?

Have you tried...

package names

Jeff

[jerry...@gmail.com]

Yes,
I started a tclsh terminal session and the command
"package names"
yielded only Tcl.

However after I did a "package require <anypackage>"
all (I hope) package names showed when I did a
"package names"

I guess it needed a kick start to build the data structures

Thanks,

Jerry

[Helmut Giese]

Hi Jerry,
go to http://mini.net/tcl/689 and look for lspackages. It's
marvellous.
HTH
Helmut Giese

[jerry...@gmail.com]

Helmut,

Thank you "lspackages" does the job quite nicely.

Jerry

[Bob Techentin]

<jerry...@gmail.com> wrote

Kind of a "kick start." The [package names] command will return a list of
package names that Tcl knows about. At startup, the interpreter only knows
about the Tcl package. If you try to require a package that Tcl doesn't
know about, then it runs all the pkgIndex.tcl files that it finds in the
auto_path. THEN Tcl knows about lots of packages. So you could use [catch
{package require BOGUS-PKG-NAME}] to get the same effect, without actually
loading a package.

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