Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:12:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bob Techentin techentin.robert@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Jun
19)
Big news is the Tcl 8.4 roadmap, presented by the Ajuba core
team [TCT]
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.4.roadmap.html
Take a look at the planned features, and consider volunteering.
There’s a lot of good stuff going on. See the discussion
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634022325
One branch thread on localization included several volunteers to
add new languages to the message catalog
http://deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=634807657
For a fascinating update on the uses of Itcl/Tk in the
development of the Mars Pathfinder flight code, see this posting
from one of the Pathfinder project’s engineers
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634056756
Follow the whole thread to see more on testing, provably correct
code, and design by contract.
Although officially announced last week, Don Porter’s drop-in
replacement for the package utility has been discussed. In
particular, Don responded to a request for specific details of the
advantages of his new package scheme.
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634205536
On compiling Tcl on the Mac … Nobody had gotten around to
building 8.3.1, which is much more stable than 8.3.0. Jim Ingham
and Donal Fellows are consipiring to describe the process
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/CompilingTclOnAMac
Oh, and look for new binaries real soon now too.
Does anybody know how the byte code compiler really works? After
some group rumination, Brian Lewis piped up with a post in which he
states that he does, in fact, remember how things work, and also
posted a pointer to a paper which gives an overview of the
compiler
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=635144338
Which VC++ should I buy? Opinions abound, with a lot of hints
for using the free cygwin compiler on Windows, or even cross
compiling from Linux.
http://deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=634360981
Paul Duffin reiterates, with only moderate shouting, the
simplicity of Tcl’s Stubs mechanism and its benefit of CROSS
PLATFORM CONSISTENCY. For a little more complete description,
see
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636307009
The First European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting is over, and as
promised, the papers are available
http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636315742
Quote of the Week is a dead-on tie: Paul Duffin: Sexy things are
just too distracting for me to do my job properly and trendy things
always cost too much and have to be changed too often 😉
Mo DeJong: Java is a great language, but don’t every try to
write a GUI in Java.
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
The “Welcome to comp.lang.tcl” message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/
Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/
They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good
thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/
NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/
Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
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http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/
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