Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 release announcement review

[elns <el...@xs...>]

On 9/14/24 10:17, elns wrote:
> 
> Is this word appropriate? I'm not a native English speaker. So, I'm unsure. Nevertheless: this word 
> makes me understand that (in the past) somebody or something has made some selected changes stand 
> out (e.g. with a marker pen), and that in a next pass/stage these changes have been chosen for 
> display in the summary of changes. I'm confident that that's not what was meant, but I'm not 
> confident enough to suggest an alternative wording.
> 

For the sake of clarity: I'm not focusing on the dual meaning of the noun "highlight", which I know 
of. I'm focusing on the perfect tense of the verb "highlight".

Erik.

> 
> 2. A suggestions to organize the summary of changes in the following distinct categories:
>         A. Tcl
>         B. Tk
>         C. Additional packages
> 
>     That would look like:
> 
> 
> A. Tcl:
>     * [TIP 692] Deprecate Tcl_GetAlias(). Migrate to Tcl_GetAliasObj()
> 
>     * Tcl_NewObjectInstance() errors on namespace re-use.
>          *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY -- breaks Itcl 4.2 ***
> 
>     * TCL_PACKAGE_PATH change from TCL list to ";" separated items
>          *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
> 
>     * Make [self] work inside [$obj eval]
> 
>     * Fix [$obj varname] for linked varnames
> 
>     * Restore access to alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS filesystems.
> 
>     * Fix crashes or hangs in...
>        - TclOO + coroutine, oo-22.[34]
>        - entangled destructor and namespace deletion, oo-35.7.*
>        - destruction of reflected channel, iocmd-32.3.*
>        - select notifier with file descriptor >= FD_SETSIZE
>        - [child invokehidden info frame], info-40.0
> 
>     * Fix GENFUNC mode of Tcl_ParseArgsObjv(). See tests indexObj-7.*
> 
>     * Fix removal of oo variable by [info exists]. See oo-19.4
> 
>     * Fix byte compiled [incr] with wide int increment. See incr-1.31
> 
>     * Repair encoding flaws in [info hostname] visible for non-ASCII names.
> 
>     * Fix incorrect [string is control] results on some private codepoints
> 
>     * Autoload of [::tcl::tm::path]
> 
>     * Fix missing error message in some [interp limit] failures.
> 
>     * Improved hash performance for some hash tables.
> 
>     * Performance optimizations in several encoding primitives.
> 
>     * Correction to rare failed startup search for system encoding
> 
>     * Add encodings: koi8-ru, koi8-t
> 
>     * Add keycodes ISO_Group_Shift and dead_hamza
> 
> B. Tk:
>     * Invoke binding scripts for events with detail field NotifyInferior
>          *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
> 
>     * Fix crashes or hangs in...
>        - [focus -force], focus-8.1
>        - [$canvas dchars], canvas-11.4
>        - [$menubutton destroy]
> 
>     * Appearance improvements for...
>        - focus ring, arrows, and classic theme.
>        - last item in a [ttk::treeview].
>        - down arrow in [ttk::combobox].
> 
>     * Repair [$photo read -from] flaws in GIF,PNG formats. imgPhoto-19.*
> 
>     * [$photo copy] coordinate check error. See imgPhoto-12.5
> 
>     * Detect corrupt GIF file and raise error. See imgPhoto-18.6.1
> 
>     * Fix default font detection for high DPI
> 
>     * [treeview identify] now point aware
> 
>     * Fix broken undo/redo in [text] widget.
> 
> C. Bundled packages, libraries, standards, data:
>     * Updates to:
>        - Itcl 4.3.0 -- supports multi-thread operations
>        - sqlite3 3.45.3
>        - Thread 2.8.10
>        - TDBC* 1.1.9
>        - tcltest 2.5.8
>        - libtommath 1.3.0
>        - Unicode 16
>        - tzdata 2024b
> 
> 
> -- end of suggestions [EL] --
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks!
>>
> 
> 
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