Synchronize Tcl and binary package versions
Update on 2024-Apr-13 -- Removed Gitlab references
Github makes it easier for me to provide binary package releases along with my source code.
Update on 2024-Mar-23 -- Moving to Github
Development has moved to Github.
The first thing I realized when I started to use
tcladu was the need for
convenience functions. For example, combinations of write_device
and read_device should be combined into a query command for
convenience. And it would be nice for those kind of commands to be in
the same tcladu package. So I started to write some Tcl, and I
realized I didn't really know how to manage the package version with
this high-level addition.
The tcladu.so binary already provides the tcladu namespace and
package version. I set this version in a makefile that also drives
testing, so I'd really like the makefile/binary package version to be
the source of truth. So I need to extract that package version in the
convenience code. It turns out that there's a
package command
for this. These links are to Tcl 9.0 documentation, but my usage doesn't
care.
Adding these lines
load ./tcladu.so
set version [package present tcladu]
package provide tcladu $version...to the tcladu.tcl source file synchronizes the Tcl and binary
source versions. I can then package this up with
pkg_mkIndex -verbose . tcladu.so tcladu.tcl...using the pkg_mkIndex command. This produces the pkgIndex.tcl script distributed with the package source files:
package ifneeded tcladu 1.1.0 [list load [file join $dir tcladu.so]]\n[list source [file join $dir tcladu.tcl]]...where you can see the combination of sourcing and loading done to make the package available. These convenience functions are coming in tcladu version 1.1.0.
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