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Don, this patch is hopelessly out of date, and we decided that
219379 resulted from conflating the 'package' that [load] uses and
the 'package' that [package] uses, yes? Should we close this patch?

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At the very least the patch needs updating.
It will not apply to the HEAD.

Will have to get back to this later...

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In a conversation that I had  with dgp on the Tcl'ers Chat last night, dgp
apparently convinced himself that the patch still isn't entirely the right thing.

There is apparently some confusion in the documentation between the
entrypoint name of the load moduleand the name of the package, if any,
that the DLL provides - leading to this patch.  The two really are distinct,
though, and it really would take a TIP to make changes to bring them in
line.

Certainly the fact that a slave interpreter can request a [load] that
is inconsistent with the master is a problem.  The correct solution is
not yet clear.

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I don't know.  I don't remember.  :^D  If you feel that it
fixes things, then that's fine with me.

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14 months later...

What else is needed from me?

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Any more thoughts on this?

Was there some additional explanation or
documentation I was supposed to provide?

File Added - 4925: 403531.patch

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Updated patch rewrites the man pages changes, and removes
the [load] error on failure to provide a package.

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Some of the grammar in the documentation seems a little
shakey (and maybe you should add some change-bars too.) 
I've not the expertise to evaluate the technical portion of
the patch.