[Dart] How about getting rid of Tcl client

[Blezek, Daniel J (CRD)]

Andy,

  The Dart client actually does not use perl to my knowledge.  The only thing a client needs it TCL
to run.  The server requires Java and perl.  While the server perl code could be replaced with TCL,
it's not really necessary, as most of the servers have perl installed anyway.

  This topic has cropped up from time to time, and is largely raised by Windows users who don't have
TCL installed by default.  It is possible to compile TCL code into an executable using some tools on
the web, and now that Dart consists of only one executable Tcl file, this might be an option.

  In retrospect, Jim Miller is correct, we should have used Python.  Python allows an executable to
build in a platform dependant manner, and Dart could have been distributed that way.  It may or may
not happen.  Java is really only used to process XML files using XSL stylesheets; we have not written
a single line of Java in Dart.

Take care,
-dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Cedilnik [mailto:Andy.Cedilnik at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: dart at public.kitware.com
> Subject: [Dart] How about getting rid of Tcl client
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> If you look at Dart as a whole, you will notice it uses several
> different languages. It uses Tcl, java, perl. Would it be possible
> to unify these implementations and replace them with one in
> common language?
> 
> 			Andy
> 
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