Re: [TCLCORE] TIP#234 Status

[Michael K. <mi...@mu...>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Adrian Robert wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:28:12 -0500
> From: Adrian Robert <adr...@gm...>
> To: Tcl Core List <tcl...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] TIP#234 Status
>
> On Nov 26, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Torsten Berg wrote:
>
>> I really, really would like to see 234 and 244 in Tcl 8.6 finally.
>
> I share in this hope.  I've used tkpng on Mac and Windows for some
> time and find it useful (indispensable, actually) and stable.

FWIW, the majority of the work required for 244 (png) to be ready is in 
234 (zlib), provided the C API is pretty close to using the zlib API 
directly, only stubbed.  Last this came up a month or two ago it wasn't 
fully defined, but Pascal was open to whatever's needed for TkPNG.  I 
didn't bother to look into it because, well, lets just say I'm focused on 
the economy like everyone else.  But I suppose if it's going to get done 
I'll have to volunteer to pick it up.

Unfortunately, Pascal's site is inaccessible currently and I don't have a 
copy (recent or otherwise) of the 234 reference implementation.  So if 
someone has recent sources they can send them to me, or ping me when 
Pascal's site is back up, and I'll try to take a look.  I'm not certain 
what the 8.6 deadline is, though.

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