On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:19:54PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 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. Tcl and Tk don't "cater specifical to niche groups". Tcl/Tk is used by uncountable projects, for system administration, data base, scientific, etc. > 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. Sure. A compiler is definitive a developer niche. Why do FC ship one? > 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. I don't see as support for a common used scripting language should be delegated to a 3rd party (as it is now). Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
