Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 06:58:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bill Schongar bschonga@cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Jun
6)
What’s in a name? Ask “Ajuba”, formerly known as Scriptics.
Comments, concerns, and rationale abounds:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625731613
and
http://www.ajubasolutions.com
Bubble, bubble, toil and… umm, sort? An implementation of a
bubble sort in Tcl, with some curiosities on ways to improve it (or
ecexution speed in general):
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625817031
Frederic Bonnet announces a new “Dictionary” object for Tcl,
described as a byhrid between arrays and lists which preserves the
internal has table, improving performance.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626306323
Download the source at:
http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/pub/dictionary.tar.gz
Will Duquette announces version 2 of a Tcl-based macro expansion
tool. (No, it’s not for writing VBS-based viruses..)
http://www.wjduquette.com/expand
What you need to do HTTPS with Tcl, from a couple different
angles:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=627522952
Jean-Luc Fontaine announces both BLT2.4 RPMs for RedHat and a
new version of moodss (which requires BLT):
BLT RPMs:
http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.spec
Moodss:
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3.tar.gz
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.i386.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.spec
How will it all be resolved? Thoughts on namespace resolution
when Itcl is involved:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626596607
Andreas Otto announces an update to his commercial Tcl
compiler:
http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/comp-main_E.html
Frederic Bonnet announces version 2.0 of a Tcl exception and
error handling package:
http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TclExcept/index.htm
What starts out as a simple question on dynamic variable names
(var$1 through var$n) becomes an analysis on the possible methods
and pitfalls of getting and setting those types of values:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626733858
Break out your secret Base64 encoder/decoder rings,
Tcl-cadets:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626766895
George Staplin announces a new version of Aged, a Tcl/Tk
programming editor:
http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/aged/
Harald Kirsch announces bras 0.99.5, a rule-based command tool
somewhat similar to ‘make’:
http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/
There’s something to be said for being willing to share…
memory, that is. A pointer to accessing shared memory through
Tcl:
http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/tcl-faq/part5.html
What kind of state is your extension in? Well, ask it! Queries
on maintaining states with your extensions, and what API functions
to link to to ensure it works:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=628773035
Is it wrong to be conservative? Some folks are wondering about
the default CFLAGS used when compiling Tcl:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629101529
Carsten’s looking for other interested folks to discuss building
real games in Tcl, and what kinds of widgets or interfaces to other
APIs would help those type of efforts. Lots of neat pointers in
this thread, especially to other packages compatible with Tcl:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629128641
A few proposals on new clock commands for ISO formatting and
other such fun things:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629369199
Johannes Zellner announces Entity 0.6, an XML application
framework:
http://entity.evilplan.org/
Jeff announces an update to the tclbench CVS collection, now
with 179 benchmarking tests and new command line options:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629711956
Don Porter announces package 0.0, a drop-in replacement for
‘package’ containing lots of the enhancements discussed in c.l.t.
over the past few months:
http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/tcltk/package/
The European User Meeting final schedule has been posted, and is
available at:
http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk
Jim Ingham, now a resident of Steve Jobs-land, provides some
neat information on Tcl and compatibility with MacOS-X:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=630305722
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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