From: Kevin K. <ke...@ac...> - 2010-03-17 02:42:36
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Donal K. Fellows wrote: > #357 on better ways to handle libraries > #362 on a fix for the [registry] command I'm the TCT member responsible for both of these. And I intend to have both of them voting next week, if someone else can tally (I'm going to be traveling.) They just need fiddly changes. > Non-TIPs (included for "strategic" reasons which we can discuss): > Add basic IPv6 support (no official API changes) > Add the Thread package to tcl/pkgs/ Maybe tdbc::odbc and tdbc::sqlite as well, if we can sort out the dependency issues. The MySQL, Postgres and Oracle native drivers are going to be more work (but can go in post-release, since we've agreed that pkgs/ doesn't need to be tied to the Core release cycle). > Make the Unix [tk_getOpenFile] more powerful > (Plus the usual bugfixes, of course.) > > What's involved in making a release if we ignore these things? Well, the > HEAD is (usually) buildable from checkout and mostly passes its test > suite so we're not actually that far. Given how much has changed since > 8.6b1, I'd actually argue that the best thing we can do now is to make > another beta. Now. +1. Just don't burn out Don! -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin |