Tclkit Lite

Tclkit Lite [1] is a light-weight (as of Oct 2005) variant of TclKit

The limits and differences are:

it only reads/runs/mounts Metakit or zip-based starkits & starpacks, not create or modify them
it does not include Mk4tcl, so all dependencies on C++ are gone
does not include [Incr-Tcl]
it adds a small TEA3-based new C-only extension (called "vqtcl")
performance is "sort of" like Tclkit, but varies because it's a different code base
it does not use the "mk4vfs" VFS driver, but a simpler one called "mkclvfs" (MK Compat Lite)
Tclkit Lite is smaller than Tclkit (some 250 Kb less on Linux, no more Mk4tcl nor C++ runtime)
SDX has been extended to support creating starkits when used with Tclkit Lite
On Windows, the lite binaries can be [AuthentiCode] signed

The tclkit build project (kitgen [2]) produces 'lite' tclkits (tclkit-cli, tclkit-dyn and tclkit-gui) along with the original style 'heavy' tclkits (tclkitsh and tclkit). See the README file for details.

See also