Hello all.
I am posting this note to give folks a "heads up" on
recent Tcl/Java news. I have been working on a new
1.2.3 release and it is almost ready but I would
like to get some feedback before releasing it.
This release is almost all bug fixes. The only
exception is the addition of support for Tcl 8.1.
I have had good luck running Tcl Blend with Tcl 8.1
on Solaris but I have not tested on other platforms.
The only catch is a configure bug in Tcl 8.1
that will not allow you to compile "out of the box".
To fix things you need to patch Tcl's tclConfig.sh
file after configuring Tcl. (remove the -Wl,)
-TCL_LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-Wl,-R,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
+TCL_LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-R${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
The other big change is the merging of the CVS
tree from the 1.1 release. I will spare you the
details, but the old CVS tree I was using was
badly broken. Now all of the changes from 1.1
to 1.2 are in a unified CVS tree. This took
a lot of work so I hope someone besides me
is able to benefit from it.
The new version of the code is in the CVS download at
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava.
If people could check it out to make sure I did not
miss anything that would be great. Also, if you
have any little bug fixes that they want to add
now would be the perfect time to post a patch to
the mailing list.
The other big news is that an "unnamed source" has
contracted me to implement the namespace command
in Jacl. It should take "about a month" to create
a working implementation from the Tcl 8.1 sources.
This should be a big win for Jacl users as Tcl 8.0
scripts that use namespace features should run
without modification in the next release of Jacl.
later
mo dejong
dejong at cs.umn.edu
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