QOTW:
I envision in the future, say in 2010 among the TCT:
Someone: Hey shouldn't we think about releasing 8.5b2 any time soon?
Second one: Not yet! I've got these 20 prio-9 bugs still open,
three typos in README, the others in ChangeLog
Third one: Wasn't there also that bug with \0-chars in << arg
to exec?
Second one: Hey we don't want to delay it further than necessary..
Andreas Leitgeb on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/7aa0625e71c5146e
http://wiki.tcl.tk/20151
POTW:
ANNOUNCE Poet 2.0.2 by Phil Mercurio
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/279dedaf3a4552af
Poet (Prototype Object Extension for Tcl) is an object-oriented
extension to Tcl/Tk that features prototype-based inheritance,
constraints, and persistence. It includes Poetics (Poet Integrated
Construction Set), a set of tools allowing the end-user to inspect
and modify a running Poet application.
This release adds support for Tcl/Tk 8.5b1. The slideshow
program I used to demo Poet at Tcl'2007 is included as an
example of how to set up and wrap a Poet application. A
few additional Tk widgets have been assimilated, and a few
bugs have been fixed.
Homepage, Downloads:
http://poet.sourceforge.net
Windows binary for tile under vista... by Georgios Petasis
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/da8590528b87e2cb
As ActiveTcl's tile does not work under vista,
I compiled tile 0.8.1 (directly from tile CVS) with visual studio 2005.
Just unzip it in the lib directory of your ActiveTcl installation.
If you cannot load the tile dll, then download & install the
microsoft visual C 2005 runtime from microsoft.
Download:
http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/tcl/tile0.8.1.zip
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
priority of bugs...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b868525f30f0daea
Why not exit on SIGPIPE
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c97678edb2e9a32a
"catch { } around everything" - improvement suggestion
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/381e291f9315c7cd
Pack/grid sensitive to order of creation, possible bug?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8a1603a6cf8f7b60
Messy graphical language ?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5e271bc85b84ce83
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/browse_thread/thread/cb4a742052bd7bc0
Tcl as a configuration language?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7ac0d992f608275a
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, wait for next week ;-)
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Problem using snack::mixer
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/eb75ea9e3ee7b9f3
Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Work on "next generation Tk" continues at a rapid pace,
but let us not forget the other subjects the Tcl community
is busy with.
GUI tools
- Techniques for selecting an arbitrary rectangle - including
rotated ones: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20154>
- Customising Tile widgets seems quite possible, though the
details need some attention. Here is a Mac-style search
widget: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18180>
- And just one of the "next generation Tk" widgets, arbitrarily
chosen from the vast list - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20158>
Not so well known perhaps
- On the French Wiki, Kroc notices that the computations that
the clock command can do, are underdocumented ... Get a taste
for them with these examples - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1528>
- Tcllib contains a module that provides name services, both
client and server side. Check it out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18306>
Potpourri
- XML parsing seems to fascinate people, here is yet another
shot at it: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20146>
- But perhaps co-routines as an extension are more surprising:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/20153> leverages the ucontext functions
- So, what is your favourite aspect of Tcl? Or Tk?
By no means an inquiry, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20150> shows
some of Tcl's surprising capabilities.
Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
http://www.tcl.tk
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/
The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
maintain references to their own software:
http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/
The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things
Tcl.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
"La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159
deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl
Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
We're working on more useful archives of past installments. In the
meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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