Ashok <
pal...@yahoo.com> writes:
> Unless your interest is specifically in Expect, there are many
> useful
No, I just saw this sentence and thought: this is a good way to give
back and learn Tcl.
> extensions, both C and script, where the author no longer has the time
> or motivation that could benefit from someone taking over or helping
> out. If you're interested, I could come up with a list and I'm sure
> others could add to it as well.
I am certainly interested. Again: the combination of doing something
useful a lot of people could profit from and learning Tcl is a nice
combination. I am primarily interested in Tcl, but if I have also to
touch some C code, I can live with that.
> On 2/16/2018 4:48 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> Christian Gollwitzer <
auri...@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 16.02.18 um 09:14 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
>>>> At
http://wiki.tcl.tk/201 I read:
>>>> The current Expect code was written to pre-7.5 standards, so until
>>>> someone steps forward to modernize the code base
>>>>
>>>> I am relative new to Tcl, but already have written a library with 30+
>>>> procedures. Would it be manageable for me to update Expect
>>>
>>> Expect is not written in Tcl. It is written in C, and linked to Tcl so
>>> you can use Tcl to control it. In order to hack Expect, you need to be a
>>> C programmer with some basic understanding how the Tcl interpreter works
>>> internally.
>>
>> Well, I did program in C a lot. ;-)
>>
>>
>>> I'm also not sure how valid this statement still is - recently, a new
>>> Expect maintainer (Nils Carlsson) has stepped forward and moved the
>>> sources to
core.tcl.tk.
>>
>> I see this as: at the moment my services are not needed.
>>
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