Category for collecting different tools that make development of Tcl easier. (Development can be considered as part of the software development life cycle, and separate from analysis, design, deployment, and maintenance. Of course, all of these activities interact in practice.)

Some tools may be standalone:

Source organization and packaging:

• The Simple Development Library: A library of commands and utilities for Tcl development.

Source creation tools:

• Macroprocessors (See Template and Macro processing, Macro Facility for Tcl, Tmac - a Tcl macro processor package, Sugar, Code Generation, and FrontLine.)
• GUI Building Tools

Source modification tools:

• Tcl Editors
• http://www.pspad.com
• TAGS file generators (See Tags for Vi/ViM editing.)
• frink - Source code formatter

Source documentation tools:

• tcldoc Tcl API Document Generator

Source inspection tools:

• See Category Debugging and Static syntax analysis.
• (???) Source Navigator

Program testing:

• See testing
• tcltest
• SimpleTest is a tcltest work-alike for projects using The Simple Library.
• Flow tracing

Application build process scripting

• See make

Some tools may be parts of development suites, like Tcl Dev Kit and JX Development Suite.

Some tools may be different Integrated Development Environments (IDE).

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Page initially created by escargo on 2 May 2003.

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See also:

• Category Development

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