Re: dummy interpreters
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> At 04:48 PM 1/6/97 +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> >
> >Should I make the package depend on tk now? It works perfectly without tk.
> >So IMHO I would specify tk as `suggested'. (The way dselect handles
> >`recommends' makes it to hard for the user not to install the package--but
> >that's another discussion.)
> >
> >But if I only `suggest' tk one might not install it and fail when one
> >tries to start xblast_setup. There is only 2 solution I see to prevent
> >this: Disable xblast_setup in some way.
>
> You can make a wrapper for it with something like
> if [ -x /usr/bin/wish ]
> do
> xblast_setup.real
> else
> echo 'To run xblast_setup you need to install the tk package'
> done
Good idea. I think I'll use this one.
Thanks,
Chris
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