Subject: tk-blt package released

From: Gordon Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:10:51 +0100 (BST)

Here is the first release of the blt extensions for tk/tcl.
I decided to call the package tk-blt, as there is another public domain
package called blt which does something completely different! I did not
make two packages for this one, as the difference between a user and a
developer version would have been less than a KByte of disk space.

I have uploaded it to chiark, so with luck it will be with you in a few
days. BTW, I have never produced a package with so many files and directories,
so don't be too hard on me if you find some mistakes. Enjoy...

Gordon.
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Package: tk-blt
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Gordon Russell <[email-masked]>
Version: =V-=D
Depends: tk41 (>= 4.1-1), tcl75 (>= 7.5-1)
Architecture: =A
Description: Useful additions and extensions to Tk
 BLT is an extension to the Tk tolkit, adding new widgets, geometry
 managers, and miscellaneous commands. It does not require any patching of
 the Tcl or Tk source files.
 .
 It adds a table manager, an X-Y graph widget, a barchart widget,
 a vector construct, spline fitting, busy windows, an enhanced exec,
 drag-n-drop, hypertext, bitmap control, Xlib interface, and some
 tcl debugging extensions.

-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff       11886 Sep 13 10:15 tk-blt-2.1-1.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff     1073174 Sep 13 10:15 tk-blt-2.1-1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1185524 Sep 13 10:14 tk-blt_2.1-1_i386.deb

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:50:54 -0500 (CDT)

> developer version would have been less than a KByte of disk space.

Even though you've withdrawn your package, there is one thing that
needs clarification.  The reason for providing separate run-time and
development packages is not to save disk space.  The reason is so that
multiple, possibly incompatible (at the API/ABI level), versions of a
package can be installed simultaneously.  Take a look at how this is
done in the tcl74 and tcl75 packages.

David
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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:50:54 -0500 (CDT)

David