Re: Why no central repository for tcl extensions?

MH wrote:
Please be careful. Doing this right can be a key development, but there's many fairly easy ways to do this terribly, terribly wrong.

Not disagreeing with you, but please give some examples of how this could be
done terribly, terribly wrong, so people can avoid the obvious ways..

I think we should be very shy about putting into the Tcl language itself, and thus, into countless programs out there, any "feature" that will make it just go grabbing and running code from the net without supervision.

I think pkgIndex.tcl and tclIndex files are quite enough exposure, thank you very much. :)

This "package fetch" functionality sounds like an admin tool anyway. No good reason to build it directly into the language that I can see. No need to repeat the [pkg_mkIndex] mistake.

DGP
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