tcl-core

[TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 RELEASED

[Donald G P. <don...@ni...>]

Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 Release Announcement
September 18, 2012

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6b3 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the third beta release
of Tcl/Tk 8.6.  More details can be found below.  We would like to
express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches.
This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate
problems in the core.

Where to get the new releases:
------------------------------

Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

         http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html

This web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features and notes about installing and compiling the
releases.  Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge
project's file distribution area:

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/

Binaries for most major platforms are available from:

         http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

For additional information:
---------------------------

Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:

         http://www.tcl.tk/

This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more.

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6b2:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.6b3.  A complete list
can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.  The
more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release.

This is a beta release of 8.6.  The beta designation means that the
feature set for 8.6 is believed to be complete, and the focus is now
on testing and bug fixing moving quickly toward an 8.6.0 release.
All relevant bug fixes (and some more) up to and including 8.5.12 changes
are included in 8.6b3.  This release is a development release, and should
only be considered for deployment use after considerable testing.

     * [TIP 388] New syntax for extended Unicode: \Uhhhhhhhh

     * [TIP 396] New command: [yieldto]

     * [TIP 398] Non-blocking channels no longer forced to flush on exit
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * [TIP 380] New OO builtin class: [oo::Slot]
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * [TIP 397] New OO standard method: <cloned> - extends [oo::copy]
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * [TIP 395] New subcommand: [string is entier]

     * [TIP 403] Redefined color names to match Web colors.
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * On Windows, adopt convention that Ctrl-A means Select-All
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * Increased use of virtual events in Tk.
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

     * [TIP 376] Bundled distribution of sqlite3 3.7.14, tdbcsqlite3-1.0b17

     * Update to Unicode 6.2 support.

     * Bytecode compiled: [catch] [dict with] [lrange] [lreplace]

     * Updated packages:
         - dde 1.4.0b1
                 [TIP 106] New option: [dde execute|poke -binary]
         - http 2.8.4
                 Accept IPv6 URLs;  Make -headers override -type.
         - Itcl 4.0b8
         - msgcat 1.5.0
                 [TIP 404] New commands: [mcflset] [mcflmset]
         - registry 1.3.0
                 fix [registry keys] failure
         - tcltest 2.3.4
         - TclOO 0.7
         - tdbc 1.0b17
         - Thread 2.7b1
                 New command: [thread::cancel]

     * Fixed several clip region issues.

     * Fixed crash in tearoff menus.

     * Made [auto_execok] search match that for [exec].

     * Several fixes to stacked zlib (de)compression channels

     * Mac OS X versions less than 10.4 (Tiger) no longer supported.
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager

-- 
| Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
| don...@ni...             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|

Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 RELEASED

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Donald,

thank you for the big work.

Makefile.vc builds and installs everything well for me now.

Congratulations !

Harald

Here are some results of
	nmake -f Makefile.vc test OPTS=threads
--sqlite3--

pkgs\sqlite3.7.14\win\Makefile.vc

There are anyway no tests in the distribution.
I would just remove the test target or let it do nothing or at least
check for existence of tests/all.tcl
Currently, the load commands in lines 309,319 do not specify "sqlite3",
so load fails:
	cannot find symbol "Sqlite_Init"
	    while executing
	"load ./Release/sqlite33714t.dll"

--tdbc::sqlite3--
Error message:
	can't find package tdbc::sqlite3
This is due to the fact, that the pkgIndex.tcl file is only build when
installed.

--threads--
Error message:
invalid command name "thread::id"
    while executing
"thread::id"
    invoked from within
"set ::tcltest::mainThread [thread::id]"
    (file "../tests/all.tcl" line 39)
NMAKE : fatal error U1077:
'"C:\test\tcl8.6b3\win\..\win\Release\tclsh86t.exe"'

[TCLCORE] Startup box: "DeleteInterpProc called with active evals"

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

I am playing with the msgcat.tcl which causes a startup error resulting
in a script error.

In one constellation it shows a Tcl_Panic message box:
	"DeleteInterpProc called with active evals"
which is due to an exit while the interpreter is still running.

It is a full tcl tree. When I just copy the tree somewhere else, the
error box is gone.

Version: tcl 8.5.12
Platform Win Vista 32 bit
Compiled by ms-vc++, sdk 2003sp1, nmake
no threads

I first thought, the issue are the missing threads, but just copying it
and it goes away...

So a build with symbols did not help, error was gone...

If anybody has some Ideas how to catch this, I will leave it on my harddisk.

Thanks,
Harald

Re: [TCLCORE] Startup box: "DeleteInterpProc called with active evals"

[Donald G P. <don...@ni...>]

On 09/19/2012 10:00 AM, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
> I am playing with the msgcat.tcl which causes a startup error resulting
> in a script error.
>
> In one constellation it shows a Tcl_Panic message box:
> 	"DeleteInterpProc called with active evals"
> which is due to an exit while the interpreter is still running.
>
> It is a full tcl tree. When I just copy the tree somewhere else, the
> error box is gone.

These descriptions are not helpful.  For people to replicate your issue
they need step by step what you did, not a narrative description of
what you did.

Then when you've got a better report, send it to the SF Tracker.

Thanks!

-- 
| Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
| don...@ni...             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|

[TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

win/Makefile.vc uses the c helper application win/nmakehelp.c for
different tasks.
One task is to extract a version in the tcl version format from a file:

nmakehelp.exe <file> <tag>

The tag start position is searched in the file.
If found, from this starting position, bytes are read until the next
number. Then, all bytes are return until a non [0-9.ab] byte is found.

Examples from file configure.in:
1) AC_INIT([sqlite], [3.3.14])
2) AC_INIT([tdbcsqlite3], [1.0b17])

In example 1), an extract of AC_INIT results in 3.3.14 which is ok
In example 2, there was no way found. If the tag is "tdbcsqlite3", "3"
is returned as version, as the version number starting point is at the
beginning of the found tag.

Question:
Is this a Bug or a Feature ?

Would it be intelligent to search from the end of the found tag ?
Are there any use cases to search from the start of the tag ?

Is this Option "V" simulating any gnu make standard functionality which
is like this or any sed magic ?

Thank you for any insights,
Harald

Re: [TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

2012/9/19 Harald Oehlmann <har...@el...>

> win/Makefile.vc uses the c helper application win/nmakehelp.c for
> different tasks.
> One task is to extract a version in the tcl version format from a file:
>
> nmakehelp.exe <file> <tag>
>
> The tag start position is searched in the file.
> If found, from this starting position, bytes are read until the next
> number. Then, all bytes are return until a non [0-9.ab] byte is found.
>
> Question:
> Is this a Bug or a Feature ?
>

A bug, in my view.


>
> Would it be intelligent to search from the end of the found tag ?
> Are there any use cases to search from the start of the tag ?
>


My suggestion: just go ahead and change it!

Regards,
        Jan Nijtmans

Re: [TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

2012/9/19 Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...>

> My suggestion: just go ahead and change it!
>
> Regards,
>         Jan Nijtmans
>
>
>
Does this what you want?:
   <http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/8be494c5ee>

Regards,
        Jan Nijtmans

Re: [TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Am 19.09.2012 14:34, schrieb Jan Nijtmans:
> Does this what you want?:
>    <http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/8be494c5ee>

Yes !

Thank you,
Harald

Re: [TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Jos D. <jos...@gm...>]

Nice, will make the makefile.vc yet another bit easier to maintain! Thanks.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Harald Oehlmann <
har...@el...> wrote:

> Am 19.09.2012 14:34, schrieb Jan Nijtmans:
> > Does this what you want?:
> >    <http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/8be494c5ee>
>
> Yes !
>
> Thank you,
> Harald
>
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Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 RELEASED

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

For those looking for a binary to test ...

On 18/09/2012 1:36 PM, Donald G Porter wrote:
> Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 Release Announcement
> September 18, 2012
>
> The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6b3 releases of the Tcl
> dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the third beta release
...

These are non-QA'd builds (it's going through QA) of the 8.6b3 core bits 
+ extras.

ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/incoming/ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b8.296238-linux-ix86-threaded.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/incoming/ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b8.296238-linux-x86_64-threaded.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/incoming/ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b8.296238-macosx10.5-i386-x86_64-threaded.dmg
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/incoming/ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b8.296238-win32-ix86-threaded.exe

They will be moved to ActiveState's main download servers when through 
internal QA, but go ahead and test with all the latest changes + updated 
modules.

Jeff