From: Jeff H. <jeffh@ActiveState.com> - 2003-08-13 17:18:39
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> There was some talk and commentary about an approximate schedule for > Tcl/Tk 8.5 releases at the recent conference. Some of the TCT folks > present were in favor of getting the 8.5 releases to beta/feature freeze > by about Christmas/New Years. So starting from that, here's a release > schedule proposal aiming to achieve that: Since there was a lot of discussion about roadmap potential, especially regarding revamping Tk, I believe it is more important to focus on the roadmap before a release schedule. > Note that the 8.5/HEAD already has a number of new features for people > to try (dictionaries, extended [catch] and [return], pkgconfig), so an > alpha release at any time would be worthwhile. While these are nice features that will be useful for large coding projects, they do not IMO justify an alpha at this time. Visible and/or more significant structural changes are necessary to really encourage people to consider using the alpha. Default AA on unix (where xft is found), updated look of *buttons (TIP#109), namespace ensembles (this is about ready for vote, no?), ... Jeff |