Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that we are planning the ActiveTcl 8.5.3 
release to be the first "fat" AT 8.5.  Exactly how to do this is not 
trivial, as we want to account for existing installs of both 8.4 and 
8.5, with whatever local modules are installed (eg, via teacup).

The approach we plan to take is to create an AT 8.5 that has a 
pre-seeded teapot repository of extra modules (not all that were in 8.4, 
but a good selection).  These will install into the same place as if you 
were to use teacup.

At install time, if no existing repository is found, we just copy over 
the pre-seeded repository (nice, fast and simple).

If a repository is found at install time, we would need to ask the user:

a. Use installing distribution repo (blow away pre-existing)
b. Use pre-existing repo (don't update with distro repo)
c. Merge

Option (c) is nice, but it is slow, because it would mean doing several 
teacup operations to ensure the integrity of the local teapot db index.

This is also somewhat complicated by OS X, where we use the standard 
installer mechanism and are limited to very simple yes/no questions. In 
that case, only (b) or (c) may be available ... or (a) or (c).

I just wanted to throw this out for others to ponder on.  If you have 
any ideas or questions, please let us know.  We want to finalize this to 
try and get a release out next week.

Regards,

Jeff
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