Rubyinstaller devel - Jul 2009 - Tk (was: Additional FAQ questions for review)

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Roger Pack<rogerdpack at gmail.com>
wrote:
> speaking of tk, if I commit a patch would it be possible to include it
> in the standard distro? ?The only reason I suggest this is that
it''s a
> core library, so providing it as a gem [or binary download] seems kind
> of...odd, though possible.
>
The problem with that is that Tk requires ActiveTcl, which cannot be
automated and cannot be stripped of dependencies.

The alternative requires building ourself the Tcl/Tk component.

Please feel free to add the recipe in your fork and I gladly will
merge it if it works ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry

> Please feel free to add the recipe in your fork and I gladly will
> merge it if it works ;-)
I''ll hopefully do it soon :)
> The problem with that is that Tk requires ActiveTcl, which cannot be
> automated and cannot be stripped of dependencies.
>
> The alternative requires building ourself the Tcl/Tk component.
Very interesting.  I thought the same as you do until this morning--it
appears that with mswin [the rc2] build I can run tk apps without
having to first install ActiveTcl.  Anybody have an idea why that is
possible?

-r

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Roger Pack<rogerdpack at gmail.com>
wrote:
> [...]
>
>> The problem with that is that Tk requires ActiveTcl, which cannot be
>> automated and cannot be stripped of dependencies.
>>
>> The alternative requires building ourself the Tcl/Tk component.
>
> Very interesting. ?I thought the same as you do until this morning--it
> appears that with mswin [the rc2] build I can run tk apps without
> having to first install ActiveTcl. ?Anybody have an idea why that is
> possible?
>
Perhaps Tk libraries are located system-wide.

Use ProcessExplorer over a IRB session after you required ''tk''
and it
should list the loaded DLLs, allowing you see the image path where the
file got loaded from.

I haven''t bundled Tk with rc2, so is definitely something in your
system.
-- 
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry