Re: [Tcllib-devel] Next Tcllib release (1.12) ...

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:
> Larry W. Virden wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Andreas Kupries
>> <and...@ac...> wrote:
>>
>>> Based on these dates my proposal
>>>
>>>        Mo Nov  9       4 weeks Testing, CVS bugfix commits, writing 
>>> up release
>>>                                notes, fixing version numbers.
>>>        Mo Dec  7       1 week  RC available for general testing, CVS 
>>> frozen
>>>        Mo Dec 14       Release
>>>
> 
>> Should one of the goals be to run the test suite against the current
>> CVS head for Tcl 8.5 and 8.6, to verify the various modules are
>> working against the current release as well as the impending release?
> 
> Yes. While the 8.6 branch is technically still in beta it should be 
> really near to its final form by now.

Status so far ...

	Tested the head on various platforms (linux-ix86, linux-x86_64,
	solaris2.8-sparc, hpux-parisc, aix-powerpc), against Tcl 8.4,
	8.5, and 8.6, head of the respective branches.

Very few failures, mostly only in the testsuite, and because of chngeas in 
error messages generated by 8.6. All are fixed now and in the Tcllib CVS. Also, 
only a very low number of version numbers which were out of sync with code 
changes, these I fixed yesterday.

I finally got up and wrote me a sak command which generates the README.txt for 
the release. Still only semi-automatically, i.e. it needs hints for the 
comment/notes columns, but all the formatting stuff is now done automatically, 
no need for me to fiddle around with alignments, and separators.

Attached an example, generated for the current state of the head.

Onward ... I still have to put the channels and transforms from my Portland 
talk up, and making them a new module in Tcllib seems to be the easiest way 
(like the new coroutine module).

Still two weeks before I freeze the CVS for release.

-- 
Sincerely,
     Andreas Kupries <an...@ac...>
     Developer @    <http://www.activestate.com/>