Re: Insight's dependance on libgui?

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

TkTable is a very widely used Tcl extension - distributed as a part of 
ActiveState's Tcl toolkit.  The chances of Jeff's wanting to contribute 
the code to the FSF (and change to a GPL license) are vanishingly 
small.  OTOH, it is a substantial chunk of code, and when we tried to 
do the memory window in pure Tcl the performance really sucked for big 
windows.  So you would need another C-based table for Tk.  There is 
another one (part of BLT) but that one is also BSD licensed, and the 
author is not going to change that.

I don't know of one that is likely to be contributed.

Jim

> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:34, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > > At present Insight depends on libgui.  How strong is this 
> > > dependency? In particular, of the non Red Hat authored portions of 
> > > the libgui library, how much does Insight require?  Is it possible 
> > > to eliminate any such dependencies?
> > The only parts of libgui (which are not owned by Red Hat) that I am
> > certain we use are src/tkTable* and library/combobox.tcl.
> > The tkCanvas stuff was used by SourceNavigator. I see that Martin Hunt
> > checked in changes to remove compilation of several files (including
> > tkCanvas), but he did not remove them from the repository.
> > The comobox, written by Brian Oakley, has a readme that says:
> > * completely, totally, free. I retain copyright but you are
> >   free to use the code however you see fit. Don't be mean.
> > A file describing the license for the tkTable widget, 
> > written/maintained
> > by Jeffrey Hobbs, is in libgui/doc/tkTable_license.terms.
>
> Sigh :-(  Don't want to see if they are interested in contributing 
> that code, or find a replacement?
>
> Andrew
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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
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