Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 9.0.0 Release Candidates

[Torsten B. <be...@ty...>]

Ha,

as I did not hear any objections, I will change the documentation accordingly in trunk tomorrow morning. I will assume the reason for requiring Tcl 8.7 is some new feature that is now also part of Tcl 9 so a `package require Tcl8.6` will not be the right version to state in the manual pages.

It would be nice to have this change included in the official Tcl 9.0 release.

Regards, Torsten


> Am 19.09.2024 um 08:22 schrieb Torsten Berg <be...@ty...>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it a problem that some man pages, when opened in the terminal via `man ...`, report belonging to Tcl 8.7 as this version has never been released? E.g. the footer of these manual pages:
> 
> array, fpclassify, ledit, lpop. lremove, lseq, process
> 
> We might ignore this as it will only show up in the terminal version, not in the HTML version, but it is still confusing.
> 
> Definitely an error, in my view, is mentioning version 8.7 in the body text of manual pages:
> 
> doc/fpclassify.n:package require \fBtcl 8.7\fR
> 
> doc/msgcat.n:\fBpackage require tcl 8.7\fR
> 
> doc/safe.n:Before Tcl version 8.7, the Safe Base kept each safe interpreter's
> 
> Should this be changed to "9.0"? I think so.
> 
> 
> For Tk, we only have 8.7 mentioned in the footer of nsimage.
> 
> 
> I would change these occurrences from 8.7 to 9.0 if there are no objections.
> 
> Regards, Torsten
> 
> 
>> Am 18.09.2024 um 21:32 schrieb Donald G Porter via Tcl-Core <tcl...@li...>:
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>> 
>> Now available at
>> 
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/9.0.0/
>> 
>> are RC1 candidate source code distribution pre-releases of Tcl and Tk 9.0.0
>> 
>> This is the second of a sequence of candidate releases leading to the release of
>> Tcl/Tk 9.0.0. Testing of builds and operations on multiple platforms is invited.  Open
>> tickets on any problems discovered, or raise the issue in a reply to this message.
>> 
>> The Tcl pre-release includes pre-releases of the packages Thread 3.0.0 and Itcl 4.3.1.
>> The same level of vetting on them is also appreciated.  The released packages
>> sqlite 3.45.3 and TDBC* 1.1.9 are also included.
>> 
>> Several fixes and improvements brought to light under examination of the RC0
>> release candidates are in these new offerings.
>> 
>> Thank you for your contributions and assistance.
>> 
>> -- 
>> | Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
>> | don...@ni...             Information Technology Laboratory |
>> | http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
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