On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:09:36 -0500, Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A great part of the scientific and educational apps in the wild are > written in TCL. To drop TCL would be to drop support for much of the > academic user base's homebrew. IF the discussion going forward is going to center on the debate on how to slim core down and use extras to suppliment a slimmer core.... dropping tcl in Core and moving it into Extras makes a lot of sense. I'm a firm believer that if Core is really going to become a general purpose operating system as stated in the objective list for the project, things that cater specifical to niche groups have to be pulled out of Core and into Extras. If general purpose is the goal....the pendatic needs of scientific computing users are niche. If general purpose is the goal...then even the pedantic needs of developers are niche. There's no reason we need to keep all of these niche tools and libs in Core, when Extras is meant to be there to suppliment Core as part of a larger Fedora Project. -jef"pround card carrying member of the tcl using scientific computer crowd"spaleta
