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This release makes the utility much nicer to use by reducing the size of tarcels and improving the error reporting from tarcel.tarcel. It also corrects a bug that meant that the args variable couldn’t be used as effectively as possible within a .tarcel called using the tarcel command from within...   Read More

This is a long overdue release which finally adds support for Darwin. It was thanks to a request for help with Mac OS X that was answered by Steve Havelka. With his initial code and advice on where Mac OS X stores files, this release ensures that AppDirs now supports the big three operating sys...   Read More

This is a minor update that makes two main changes: i) A comment header is now added to the start of a tarcel to state that it is a tarcel and what version of Tarcel it was created with. ii) Within a .tarcel file you can now add a version requirement to get packageLoadCommands. The Comment Head...   Read More

Wrapping an application with Tarcel makes it much easier to distribute by allowing you to include all the files for the application along with the packages that it requires in a single file. As an example we’ll wrap Tarcel itself using the tarcel.tarcel file in the repo. Looking at the tarcel.t...   Read More

One of the reasons for creating Tarcel was to make it easier to create modules out of multiple files. Modules have definite benefits: they are faster to load and are simpler to deploy. As an example, if you have the following files that you would like to put together to form a module called tra...   Read More

Tarcel allows you to combine a number of files together to create a single tarcel file that can be run by tclsh, wish, or can be sourced into another Tcl script. This makes it easy to distribute your applications as a single file. In addition it allows you to easily create Tcl modules made up o...   Read More

This release adds support for using command prefixes with slave commands. The requirement came about from the Tarcel project which needed to call an object’s method using the my command. This change also makes the functionality of slave commands more similar to master commands. Using a Command...   Read More