[Tcllib-devel] Critcl 3.1.18 released

[Andreas K. <aku...@sh...>]

Hello all.

Critcl 3.1.18 has been released today.

  C Runtime In Tcl, or CriTcl, is a system for compiling C code
  embedded in Tcl on the fly and either loading the resulting objects
  into Tcl for immediate use or packaging them for distribution. Use
  CriTcl to improve performance by rewriting in C those routines that
  are performance bottlenecks.

The full set of changes since 3.1.17 is in the commit log.

A smaller overview can be found at

  http://andreas-kupries.github.io/critcl/doc/files/changes.html

Focusing that list even more, on the new features:

  * (Developer support). Merged pull request #96 from
    sebres/main-direct-invoke. Enables direct invokation of the
    "main.tcl" file for starkits from within a dev checkout,
    i.e. outside of a starkit, or starpack.

  * Added channel types to the set of builtin argument and result
    types. The argument types are for simple channel access, access
    requiring unshared channels, and taking the channel fully into the
    C level, away from Tcl. The result type comes in variants for
    newly created channels, known channels, and to return taken
    channels back to Tcl. The first will register the returned value
    in the interpreter, the second assumes that it already is.

  * Package `critcl::class` bumped to version 1.1. Extended with the
    ability to create a C API for classes, and the ability to disable
    the generation of the Tcl API.

  * Package `critcl::cutil` bumped to version 0.2. Added macros
    ALLOC_PLUS and STRDUP.

  * Package `critcl::iassoc` bumped to version 1.1. Refactored
    internals to generate an include header for use by .c files. This
    now matches what other generator packages do. The template file is
    inlined and removed.

  * New package `critcl::callback` providing C-level functions and
    data structures to manage callbacks from C to Tcl.

  * Package `critcl::literals` bumped to version 1.3. Added mode
    `+list` enabling the conversion of multiple literals into a list
    of their strings.

  * Package `critcl::enum` bumped to version 1.1. Added basic mode
    handling, supporting `tcl` (default) and `+list` (extension
    enabling the conversion of multiple enum values into a list of
    their strings).

  * Package `critcl::emap` bumped to version 1.2. Extended existing
    mode handling with `+list` extension enabling the conversion of
    multiple emap values into a list of their strings.

  * Extended the set of available types by applying a few range
    restrictions to the scalar types (int, long, wideint, double,
    float).

        Example: `int > 0` is now a viable type name.

        This is actually more limited than the description might let
        you believe.


Wrt the restricted scalar types, it is the cartesian of

        (int, long, wideint, double, float)
      x (<, <=, >, >=)
      x (0, 1)

-- 
See you,
	Andreas Kupries <aku...@sh...>
			<https://core.tcl-lang.org/akupries/>
	Developer @	SUSE Software Canada ULC
		  	<and...@su...>

Tcl'2019, Nov 5-8, Houston, TX, USA. http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2019/
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