On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:59 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:32 , Karl Forner wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The point is that I do not use tcltk, it gets loaded probably as a >> dependency of a dependency of a package. >> When I unload it all work perfectly fine. I just found it because one >> of my computer did not have tk8.5 installed, and did not exhibit the >> mentioned bug. So I really think something should be done about this. >> Maybe the "gui loop" should not be run a the the loading of the tcltk >> package, but >> at the first function ran, or something like this. > > Doesn't sound doable. It would be tricky to do and wouldn't help in the cases > where people actually want to use the GUI - plus, it would leave a time bomb > if you directly or indirectly fire up a Tk window (say, the CRAN menu from > install.packages()). >
Would it be possible to separate the tk and tcl portions of tcltk into two packages so that the tcltk package would be dependent on a new tcl package ? From the viewpoint of a user of tcltk there would be no change but it would allow packages that only use tcl to declare a dependency only on that. By the way, tcl/tk 8.6 was released about 10 days ago with a ton of attractive new features and it would be nice to have it in the R windows build: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
