Notes

• Release should contain the linenoise sources

From chat

rkeene: aku, One option is to have a "release" branch that corresponds to the contents of the release tarball that forks at the release point, then tag that commit on the release branch

aku: Oh. I see. Make a branch where the linenoise sources are in the repo, and thus automatically in the tarball github will create.

rkeene: Basically create the tarball, create the branch (can Git have multiple branches with the same name ?), then get rid of everything in the branch, and replace it with stuff in the tarball, tag that commit as the release

Note: The above dance gets around github's insistence that the "sources" of a release should be a tagged commit in the repository. They automatically link to the commit and auto-generate archives. The result normally is not a proper release with RE artifacts.

I have an error when load linenoise package:

package require linenoise
can't create procedure "::linenoise::history::TempFile": unknown namespace
while evaluating package require linenoise

This fix in policy.tcl resolve an error:

--- a/policy.tcl  2023-01-07 01:20:12.256624629 +0200
+++ b/policy.tcl  2023-01-07 01:16:46.820239749 +0200
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 ## The saving and loading primitives are wrapped for proper
 ## integration of the exported commands within Tcl's VFS.
 
-namespace eval linenoise::history {}
+namespace eval ::linenoise::history {}
 
 if {[package vsatisfies [package present Tcl] 8.6]} {
     # Tcl 8.6, and higher. We have "file tempfile".
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
     return [::linenoise::history_getmax]
 }
 
-namespace eval linenoise::history {
+namespace eval ::linenoise::history {
     namespace ensemble create -map {
        add     ::linenoise::history_add
        clear   ::linenoise::history_clear
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
 
 # # ## ### ##### ######## ############# #####################
 
-namespace eval linenoise {
+namespace eval ::linenoise {
     # primitive commands:
     # - columns
     # - prompt (with completion) | wrapped

The fix is :: symbols in the name of the namespace string in the policy.tcl file.

Reason

This command at line 13:

namespace eval linenoise::history {}

create namespace with the implicit declared name [namespace current]::linenoise::history, where [namespace current] may have any other name, than the root namespace ::.

The next instruction at the line 18:

proc ::linenoise::history::TempFile {} {

use absolutely declared namespace name ::linenoise::history, not implicit declared namespace name [namespace current]::linenoise::history.

So, this two lines (13 and 18) use different namespaces.

I think, that name of declared namespace MUST be consistent with namespace in procedure names.

Please, fix the file.