Tcl packaging guidelines

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:42 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Following the precedent set by perl, python, and ruby, I've drafted a 
> set of proposed guidelines for Tcl packages.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MichaelThomas/Tcl
> 
> The main motivation behind these guidelines is 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226893
> 
> These proposed guidelines will require changes to most of the existing 
> Tcl extensions in Fedora, as the installation directory for 
> arch-specific packages will need to be changed from %{_libdir} to 
> %{_libdir/tcl8.x.  Since Tcl was recently upgraded from 8.4 to 8.5a5 in 
> rawhide, this seemed like a suitable time to make such changes.
> 
> I'd like to get any feedback on this proposal before I submit it to the 
> Fedora packaging committee, hopefully in time so that the changes can be 
> made before the F7 release.
> 
I cannot give anymore feedback then +1.
I hope this Proposal will be accepted, it is something I missed when
starting to package tcl packages.

Sander