[TCLCORE] Call For Votes: TIPs #129, #143, #145, #152, #177, #179

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Hi everyone!

As I threatened last week, here is a call-for-votes for a whole bunch of
TIPs that feel deserving in my opinion.  Full details of each TIP may be
obtained from http://purl.org/tcl/tip/

TIP#129 - New Format Codes for the [binary] Command
   This is unlikely to be the end of changes to the [binary] command, but
   the other proposals are in other TIPs (or unTIPped) and are not yet
   fully cooked.

TIP#143 - An Interpreter Resource Limiting Framework
   My baby!  This gives Tcl powers not had by any other language that I
   know of offhand, and is likely to be useful in many different server
   contexts.  I have also identified other potentially cool uses too
   (e.g. profilers) and it will be interesting to see what the wider
   community makes of it.

TIP#145 - Enhanced Tk Font Handling
   Giving that extra bit of polish to Tk's fonts.

TIP#152 - New -detail Option for tk_messageBox
   A nice enhancement for Mac and Unix people, and no harm done on Win
   (where the actual feature is unsupportable AIUI.)

TIP#177 - Add -stretch Option to Panedwindow
TIP#179 - Add -hide Option to panedwindow Widget
   A pair of feature-enhancements for the panedwindow widget submitted
   by Brian Griffin who's apparently used them far more than most of the
   rest of us.

Send your votes (usual form) to this list by [clock format 1084359600]
(that's midday GMT+DST, two weeks from today).  My votes follow:

TIP#129: YES
TIP#143: YES
TIP#145: YES
TIP#152: YES
TIP#177: YES
TIP#179: YES

Note that I have *not* included TIP#154 in this call because I am not
yet sure that it is fully cooked.  If someone convinces me that a vote
really is ready there too, I'll call it separately.

Donal.