I sent the following to the openmash-developers mailing
list. Any volunteers from SourceForge are also welcome.
Subject: Tcl/Tk 8.4 support
From: Lloyd Lim <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>
To: Open Mash Developers <openmash-developers@openmash.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:32:29 -0800
We eventually need to move Mash to Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4
is still in
the alpha stages so there's probably lots of time. But
it'll probably
be a significant amount of work.
8.4 restricts access to Tcl/Tk internals. This doesn't
affect most
modern Tcl/Tk users because they are well-behaved. Mash is
not
well-behaved and it often does things that aren't considered
clean.
Why is Tcl/Tk 8.4 important? In general, we'd like to keep
Mash
current with Tcl/Tk to benefit from new bug fixes and
features. If
we're current, we can also get them to fix bugs in Tcl/Tk
instead of
fixing them locally. But a flashier reason is that 8.4 has
native
Macintosh OS X support. We want to use that.
Many of us at BMRC are tied up with higher-priority tasks.
Some of us
would love to work on it, but we're just too busy.
This would be a perfect project for someone outside BMRC.
Since
changes for 8.4 are likely to be compatible with 8.3 also,
the work
could be done gradually and committed into our CVS a piece
at a time.
The work would be fairly isolated from other Mash projects,
although
the person would need to communicate with me regularly.
Any takers?
Lloyd
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The Mac OS X port of Open Mash was completed yesterday. Native audio
and video is now supported. You must run under XFree86. Video is only
supported with FireWire webcams and the IOXperts driver. Other video
capture devices and drivers may work.
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I sent the following to the openmash-developers mailing
list. Any volunteers from SourceForge are also welcome.
Subject: Tcl/Tk 8.4 support
From: Lloyd Lim <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>
To: Open Mash Developers <openmash-developers@openmash.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:32:29 -0800
We eventually need to move Mash to Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4
is still in
the alpha stages so there's probably lots of time. But
it'll probably
be a significant amount of work.
8.4 restricts access to Tcl/Tk internals. This doesn't
affect most
modern Tcl/Tk users because they are well-behaved. Mash is
not
well-behaved and it often does things that aren't considered
clean.
Why is Tcl/Tk 8.4 important? In general, we'd like to keep
Mash
current with Tcl/Tk to benefit from new bug fixes and
features. If
we're current, we can also get them to fix bugs in Tcl/Tk
instead of
fixing them locally. But a flashier reason is that 8.4 has
native
Macintosh OS X support. We want to use that.
Many of us at BMRC are tied up with higher-priority tasks.
Some of us
would love to work on it, but we're just too busy.
This would be a perfect project for someone outside BMRC.
Since
changes for 8.4 are likely to be compatible with 8.3 also,
the work
could be done gradually and committed into our CVS a piece
at a time.
The work would be fairly isolated from other Mash projects,
although
the person would need to communicate with me regularly.
Any takers?
Lloyd
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The Mac OS X port of Open Mash was completed yesterday. Native audio
and video is now supported. You must run under XFree86. Video is only
supported with FireWire webcams and the IOXperts driver. Other video
capture devices and drivers may work.