[TCLCORE] Re: 8.x tasks

[Dan K. <ku...@aj...>]

> Hmmm.  I'm not familiar with these issues, but the descriptions sound
> like feature enhancements (porting to new platforms, performance
> improvements) rather than bug fixes.  Things that can wait for Tcl 8.4.

> * Fix the Windows 64 open sockets limitation
> * Look into improving the flushing on Windows
> * Correct Itanium support for Win64 (already OK on Linux64,
>   I'm working on the rest now)
> * Backport some speed enhancement from 8.4
> * Improve performance for append in large string cases (>1M)
>   (we have a working patch that we are further verifying)
> * Do further verification of Tcl/Tk on Win2K

In reference to the 'append' patch for large string cases:

If the the memory allocation routines in tcl are flawed
(they over allocate when dealing with large ammounts of
memory) is fixing that a bug fix or an enhancement?

As for the Itanium support and Win2K verification, I think
that it is *very* important that there be a release quality
version of tcl available on these platforms when they come
out.  If any bugs are found in tcl 8.3.2 that make it unusable
on Win2K, it is still a bug against 8.3.2, not a 'feature
enhancement'.  If the TCT takes the stance that supporting
standard platforms (like Windows on Itanium and Win 2K) is
a feature enhancement that can wait 4, 6 or 8 months people
will look at Tcl as a 'toy' language that can't be relied
on for commercial development.  No one who is using tcl in
a commercial product wants to wait months before they
can add support to a platform that their customers might
already be starting to deploy (like Win2K).

--Dan

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