[paragraphs moved to beginning for readers uninterested in Tcl]
In any case, my major concern with Tcl as a window manager (and
especially if it tries to do module things in the same process) is
that it's not multithreaded yet. I *really* don't want my window
manager to hang if its built in pager (or something) goes into a loop.
I don't think it's a silly idea, necessarily, but it requires some
thought as to what the goals are. And looking closely at scwm surely
makes sense.
[Tcl bit]
Manfred Bartz <MBartz_at_promail.com> writes:
> However, my experience has been that tcl/tk is excellent for small
> appletts but not for medium or large applications. All the larger
> tcl/tk based apps that I know of (tkdesk, tkinfo, and a few I can't
> remember now) are too buggy to rely on.
exmh is one of the best mail readers out there. Personally, I use
Gnus, but exmh is solid. There's also a Tcl web server (tclhttpd),
which seems pretty robust. And tkman is a superb manpage reader:
anybody that still uses xman definitely ought to try it. (None of
these are trivial applications, either.)
Closer to home, <URL:
http://www.isode.com> uses Tcl based management
tools for its directory and messaging products, and our LDAP/WWW
gateway is basically Tcl. We find it relatively robust.
> That is surely due to the absence of data-types and type checking in
> the language.
Possibly, or perhaps it's just that the applications are trying to do
ambitious things and haven't had enough maintenance effort yet.
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Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 08:35:15 BST