bltsh bltsh24 bltwish bltwish24 are all absent

[William Scott]

The executables bltsh bltsh24 bltwish bltwish24
that are installed with the blt package are not present. I had to reinstall blt again by hand, and am a
bit worried about this messing stuff up in the future.

I tried reinstalling the blt debian package but to no avail.

OS default install of 5.0.4 on July 22 2005

[William Scott (wgscott1)]

I've noticed the above-listed executables are also not present on the live demo cd.

I should clarify that by "install by hand" I downloaded the source code and compiled and installed the software
the old-fashioned way.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

not a bug. It doesn't make sense to provide a separate shell for each Tcl
Extension. Also, the current blt version is 8.0.

just use wish for your scripts:

#!/usr/bin/wish

package require BLT

[...]

[synchrotron (thompson-james)]

Though I agree this is not a bug, the absence of bltwish is a major problem for many that use scripts made by others. The lack of bltwish in Ubuntu breaks function when assumptions are made.

[wgscott (wgscott)]

Thanks very much for your support.

I just gave up fighting city hall and distribute my own debian with
bltwish in it.

IMO if you arbitrarily pull something out of a standard distributed
package that developers and/or users expect to be there, you broke it. In
this case I can't see what harm it would do to keep the lousy thing in
there.

synchrotron wrote:
> Though I agree this is not a bug, the absence of bltwish is a major
> problem for many that use scripts made by others. The lack of bltwish
> in Ubuntu breaks function when assumptions are made.
>
> --
> bltsh bltsh24 bltwish bltwish24 are all absent
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19148
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[Juan (ufnoise)]

I am also affected by this bug. Please add bltwish back as it is used as a pipe between an application I am running and a graphics window.