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  The Simple Library: a library of commands and utilities for Tcl development
                           Version 0.2, 23 april 2000
                       Juan C. Gil  (mailto:jgil@gmv.es)
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   This is The Simple Library, a collection of commands and utilities aimed
towards assisting software development in Tcl, the great language designed by
John Ousterhout.  It provides elements I consider essential for good software
engineering and/or medium to big projects development, such as a framework for
regression testing, documentation almost rensembling literate programming,
centralized error handling and improved package handling as well as debugging
aids such as a mechanism to ensure type consistency for command arguments and
non-local variables which provides some of the benefits of strong typing. 

INSTALL

   The Simple Library is written in pure Tcl itself, so that no compilation is
needed to run it on Unix, Windows or Mac environments.  Just unpack into one
of the directories that Tcl searches for packages and you are done; Tcl
version 8.0 or later is required.  In the future, some sections are likely to
be rewritten in C for improved performance. 

   To test the installation, type "simpletest -all" in Unix or
"tclsh?? simpletest -all" in Windows (?? is your Tcl version, such as 80);
a total of 551 test cases in 9 packages shall execute and pass.

LICENSE

   The Simple Library is distributed under the Tcl license, which in turn is
similar to the BSD license.  In essence, this license allows you to do
whatever you want with the software provided the copyright notices are left
untouched.

CONTACT INFORMATION

 * For bug reports, comments, request for features or code contributions
please contact the author at mailto:jgil@gmv.es. 

 * The Simple Library web home is at http://simplelib.homepage.com. 

 * comp.lang.tcl is the Usenet group for Tcl and The Simple Library
discussion. 

 * There is a page devoted to The Simple Library in the Tcl Wikit at
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/525.html. 


Copyright Juan C. Gil 1999, 2000
