Tcl core, stacked channels, coordination note.

[Andreas K. <a.k...@we...>]

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Things I spoke with Jeff about at 1st European ...


Next steps:

* Take the script-level 'unstack' command from Trf and the gIOT
  extension [1] and fold them into the core. This not only adds more
  stacked channel functionality into the core but facilitates testing
  of that functionality.

* Take the testsuites from TLS, Trf and gIOT and see what we can use to
  extend the test suite of the core.

* While doing this write a draft spec how to restructure the internals
  of stacked channels to address the remaining issues (hackish copying
  of channel structures, proper closing, transformations being able to
  catch and handle fileevents without upper levels knowing, etc.).

  Jeff and I had the same general idea of splitting the Channel
  structure into a master covering the highlevel things like event
  handling and a list of modules associating a stack of drivers with
  the master. We will have to work out the details though.

* Afterward, reimplement the stacked channels according to the
  finalized spec.

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* Listx: Stuff like porting the latest changes to the existing
  list-functionality (lsearch -sorted, ...) and integration into the
  core will be done by Jeff, or so I understood.

  We didn't talk about that part, but I hereby propose that the stubs
  table I added to listx be either made available separately to users
  of the core, or merged with the stubs table of the core.

  I strongly recommend to make the new functionality available at the
  C level.

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I volunteered to do the german translation of the strings used in the
tk dialogs, team leader is Laurent Duperval. This is something I
should be able to do in a single evening which I can squeeze in
anytime, so is no real burden.

Here is the location of a tool to make management of tcl msg
catalogs easier: http://www.tu-harburg.de/~skfcz/tcltk.html
Name: MSGEdit, Author Carsten Zerbst, presented at 1st European...

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[1] gIOT =	generic IO transformation. Enables the implementation
		of transformations at the scriptlevel. 

-- 
So long,
	Andreas Kupries <a.k...@we...>
			<http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>
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