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Tcl Dev Kit User Guide |
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TEA Package Management
Introduction
The TEA package
management applications provide you with the ability to create, manage,
export, and use TEApot package repositories.
TclApp has been extended to directly access
TEApot repositories as a source of packages for wrapping. It makes use
of extended meta data in TEA packages to pull down not only the packages
directly needed by the wrapped application, but their dependencies as
well.
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General information
- Introduction:
A quick introduction to the most important pieces of the TEApot
system and their relationships.
- Glossary: The
glossary of all terms relevant to TEApot.
- Meta data
specification: The specification of the meta data
format, its embedding into various forms of package archives, and
the keywords ActiveState has laid claim to and given meaning.
- Transparent Repository
Structure: The specification of the structure of
transparent repositories.
- ActiveTcl: How
TEApot and ActiveTcl interact with each other.
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Tools
The TEApot system provides four command line tools. They are:
- TEAcup: A package
management client for fetching, installing, updating and removing Tcl
packages (part of ActiveTcl).
TEAcup can also provide meta data on installed and available packages
and can be used to search multiple repositories using complex queries.
- TEApot: A server
application for exposing a TEA repository on a network via TCP/IP.
The server uses port 832768 by default.
- TEApot-Admin: An
administrative client for managing "opaque" repositories on the local
filesystem. It allows you to create new repositories, add and remove
packages, list the repository contents, and retrieve packages.
- TEApot-Pkg: A tool
for creating TEA package archives from package sources and
binaries.
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