Re: missing sources at equi4.com

> I think www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/vfs.tar.gz is just a copy from
> sourceforge.net/projects/tclvfs.

Yes, it has always been a tar from the latest cvs checkout of tclvfs.  
In fact, all tars in www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/ are simply checkouts  
of the different pieces. The only small tweak I apply is shown in  
all.diffs, which IIRC avoids a problem in 8.4 Tk's when using command- 
line arguments with a starpack. I think that no longer works in 8.5,  
don't know whether the problem is still there, in fact.

> Is there a reason in the difference between the provided packages in
> vfs/library/pkgIndex.tcl and files/vfs1.3-pkgIndex.tcl from your  
> kitgen.tgz?
> Otherwise I would provide all the packages from the original  
> pkgIndex.tcl.

In the original tclkit, only a few VFS packages were included - to  
keep size down and because several of those VFS drivers are/were in  
flux, or simply never reached the point of being widely usable. There  
are probably valid arguments either way: keep the limited set in a  
tclkit and let people add whatever else they need to their apps, or  
simply include all of tclvfs in a tclkit exe.

> What about http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/zlib.tar.gz. Is it also  
> just
> a copy from http://zlib.net/? So i can get my version from there too?

Yes. Or use my svn copy (svn co svn://svn.equi4.com/zlib/trunk zlib) -  
which I added there because I did not find a scm'ed repository  
anywhere else. Not back then, anyway.

> And last just out of curiosity. Is there a plan to make vlerq able  
> to write
> kit files. This seems for me the last real big difference to the  
> original
> tclkits.

Vlerq can already write kit files, sdx works with tclkit lite. But  
it's not a transaction/commit mechanism as in Metakit - just a "save a  
complete in-memory view/subview structure to file". The vlerq  
"m2mvfs.tcl" vfs driver does that (Memory to Metakit). A future  
version of Vlerq will support transaction/commit modes, but I don't  
know when it'll be ready - don't hold your breath. Vlerq uses a design  
which is completely different from Metakit's.

> PS. I use the following new versions in my project:
>  sqlite-3_4_0-tea.tar.gz -> sqlite-3_5_4-tea.tar.gz
>  tablelist4.6.tar.gz -> tablelist4.8.tar.gz
>  trofs0.4.3.tar.gz -> trofs0.4.4.tar.gz
>  xotcl-1.5.3.tar.gz -> xotcl-1.5.6.tar.gz

Great, I'm glad to see that you're tracking the latest changes. As it  
stands right now, I don't expect to be doing anything new for/with  
Tclkit Lite nor KBS in the foreseeable future, so it's good to see  
that both are in good hands :)

Thanks,
-jcw