Re: Tcl bytecode

Donald Arseneau wrote:
So I have a question. Is there *any* justification for searching all
these directories?

A history of more than 10 years of looking there means that's where the packages are. If we stop looking there, we stop finding installed packages and applications break.

Do loadable shared libraries need to be found from these
paths, or just package-init files?

For the sake of those who do "embedding" rather than "extending", it's been custom for [load]able packages to install their shared library files somewhere where the runtime loader can find them too.

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