Do Explorative Programming in tclsh with Readline Support

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:06, Rainer Müller wrote:

> This error comes from the line 'package require port 1.0'. You can  
> see a
> backtrace in tclsh using 'set errorInfo'.
>
> Unfortunately the interface of the port 1.0 package is not as clean as
> it should be. Usually port 1.0 is required from macports::worker_init
> where several variables are already in the global namespace, such as
> portarchivemode (which is already set in the instructions on the wiki)
> and portbuildpath. I do not have a list what else might be used, as it
> would only be recognized once you run the specific command in this way
> from tclsh.
>
> portbuildpath is used in lazy evaluation for the workpath variable,
> which means it is required as soon as the first access to workpath
> happens. The gsoc08-privileges added a read operation on workpath
> causing the evaluation to happen and this lets the loading fail now.
>
> I don't know what you want to do, as a quick workaround just do not
> require port 1.0 for now.

Thanks. I wanted to play with strsed, which works fine without port 1.0.