Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@activestate.com> wrote on 12/11/2006 04:32:55 PM:

> Scott Gargash wrote:
> > Is there any way to get the xotcl c-interface files (the .h/.lib files)
> > that correspond to the version of XOTcl that ships with the ActiveState
> > release?  They're not present in the distribution.
>
> Hmmm, well, we don't keep those around.  With the number of binary
> extensions in ActiveTcl, we made a decision a few years ago to save
> space by not keeping around the dev bits.  I understand that they would
> be useful to a small percentage of users, but we haven't figured out any
> way to easily automate the handling of dev bits separate from user bits.

Perhaps it would make sense to break the download into two parts, a runtime environment and an SDK. I'm unsure what other extensions have a binary interface, but for XOTcl (at least) all that needs to be shipped is a couple of headers and the stubs lib.  It seems equivalent to Tcl proper. In fact, perhaps even the base Tcl libs/headers ought to be in an SDK package.  I'd think than many, perhaps even a majority of, users don't need the Tcl headers & libs.

But if it's not there, it's not there.  Oh well, back to building my own version.

Scott