On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Erik A Pearson wrote:
> Here are a couple of suggestions:
>
> I've need to make these two changes to the 1.2.2 and earlier:
Not sure what you mean here. Could you provide more info or a patch
and some example code?
> 1. add support to handle PATH_VOLUME_RELATIVE in FileUtil
I added support for passing 64 bit numbers around to Java methods
back in version 1.2.2 but there is no support for doing expr's on
64 bit numbers. The C version of Tcl does not support this either.
> 2. set the max integer size in Utils.StroulResult greater than 32 in order to
> handle integer strings that are the result of long java return values (e.g.
> currentTimeMillis).
I have no idea what you mean by this. All string that are run through eval
could run into subst issues. Could you provide more info about what you
mean?
> These are enhancement requests:
> 3. I think it would be great to be able to set a string as non-executable. When
> handling arbitrary text within the tcl/jacl it can be quite troublesome dealing
> with the accidental evaluation of text which normally works but sometimes (when
> the text happens to have the usual suspects $ " and common friends []{}) fails.
> Being able to set the attribute of a jacl string to non-executable would really
> help.
Well, Jacl should work with more than one interp (one in each thread). I
have not tested it that much but it should work. Of course, interthread
communications would be a great.
> 4. My next ambition for jacl would be multithreading -- interpreters which can
> spin off indpendent interpreter threads and interthread communications, etc. In
> my application I'd like to run a master interpreter which spins off "chron"
> interpreters, interpreters to handle http connections, interpreters to handle
> other background tasks, and so on. Right now each thread needs its own
> independent interpreter and any inter-interpreter state information is retained
> by the master java application.
The next release will fully support namespaces. In fact, you can try out
a prerelease which includes these features right now if you like.
> Namespace support is certainly a start. Are
> there plans for this?
later
mo
> >
> >There is a new prerelease of Jacl ready for downloading at
> >http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava/pre. A precompiled
> >binary and a source dist are provided. Anyone using an earlier
> >prerelease should try this version out ASAP. This prerelease
> >includes a "namespace aware" version of the info command and
> >supports importing and exporting of commands from namespaces.
> >This prerelease also includes unicode string support in the
> >parser and an update to the package command.
> >
> >By the way, the 1.2.4 versions of Jacl and Tcl Blend should
> >be done real soon now. If anyone has any changes that they
> >want to get into the tree please make them known now. New
> >development on the 1.2 tree may come to an end after the
> >1.2.4 release so now is the time to get any changes in.
> >After that a new tree (named 1.3 or perhaps 1.4) will
> >be started for development and the 1.2 tree will become the
> >"stable" release.
> >
> >Mo DeJong
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