Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Using Packages

Each script file in a library declares what package it implements with the package provide command:

package provide name version
					

The name identifies the package, and the version has a major.minor format. The convention is that the minor version number can change and the package implementation will still be compatible. If the package changes in an incompatible way, then the major version number should change. For example, Chapter 17 defines several procedures that use the HTTP network protocol. These include Http_Open, Http_Get, and Http_Validate. The file that contains the procedures starts with this command:

package provide Http 1.0

Case is significant in package names. In particular, the package that comes with Tcl is named ...