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So I tried to install it and got fancy error:

$ ./install.tcl

...skipped...

Copying data to lib/tke/data... done.

Copying doc to lib/tke/doc... done.

Copying lib to lib/tke/lib... error!

  error copying "lib" to "lib/tke/lib": "lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/...skipped.../tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/doc/md/TKE Developer Guide/Plugin Development/Safe (Untrusted) Interpreter Description.md": file name too long

That looks like what you would get if you asked it to install in the same directory you downloaded it to.

It would try to copy lib/ into itself, resulting in your "lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/..." mess.

Like:

  $ mkdir lib
  $ mkdir lib/tke
  $ tclsh
  % file copy lib lib/tke/lib
  error copying "lib" to "lib/tke/lib": "lib/tke/lib/tke/[cut off long string here]": file name too long

Specify a root directory other than the current directory and it should work.

I wonder if tcl should disallow copying a directory into itself.

Edit: I opened a bug report for tcl: https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/82049f96f841214bb8cee18e1bf8...

And it consumed 8.7Gb :) I wonder if the editor itself is of the same quality :/

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