Sounds good, Massimo. I think one of the biggest advances in the potential for the use of Rivet by others has been the creation of a Linux RPM and a FreeBSD port of Rivet 2.0.
While I enthusiastically welcome further Rivet development, successful efforts to grow the user base will yield more energy and more people who are willing to contribute. That being said, I don't particularly know where to go from there. -karl On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Massimo Manghi wrote: > > Just of couple of thoughts about Damon's proposal to drop 8.4 support for > good. > > Giving as granted we are using Tcl8.5 from now on we can obviously expand, > reform and/or complement commands and packages. I'm sure Damon is thinking > of our database access module for example. Also smaller databases (headers, > cookies, forms, environment) may benefit of dicts to improve their interface. > This is not only about the core but also programming style and object > interfaces so I thought we could have a page on the wiki where we can keep a > list of new ideas and proposals. Furthermore 8.6 is bringing new remarkable > stuff to Tcl and this might require some planning and ability to look far > ahead. > > I created a page on the wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/tcl/RivetPlanning. I > chose to put in on the Apache's wiki, but maybe it would be more visible on > wiki.tcl.tk.... > > -- Massimo > > > On 09/10/2010 04:27 AM, Damon Courtney wrote: >> I think it's time to drop support for Tcl 8.4 in the next release. We've >> got 2.0.1 out there that works with 8.4, but 8.4 is getting long in the >> tooth and will soon be EOL'd. I'm already running everything on 8.6, and >> Karl has been on 8.5 for a while now. As I make changes to the core, I'd >> like to use newer 8.5 code like dicts and ensembles. >> >> I can see already from the 2.0.1 release notes that we've added a calendar >> package that requires 8.5 or 8.4 with dicts. It's time to drop 8.4. People >> who still need it for whatever reason can stay with the last supported >> version of Rivet (which will be 2.0.1 if we all agree). This is not to say >> that we will be purposely ripping out a bunch of code and replacing it with >> 8.5, just that the developers don't have to worry about using the nicer >> pieces of 8.5 going forward. >> >> What say you? >> >> D >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org
