Re: [Tcllib-devel] any thoughts on tcllib release?

[Michael S. <sc...@un...>]

Andreas Kupries schrieb:
>> I was just over at http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcllib/ and was looking at
>> the release announcements. In 2000, 4 releases of Tcllib occurred. In 2001,
>> 2 releases, in 2002, 2 releases, in 2003, 1 release, in 2004, 2 releases, and
>> in 2005, 1 release. Is there any thought of how many Tcllib releases,
>> and when, would occur during 2006?
> 
> I definitely want to do one release just before the conference. I am not sure if
> we will have the time to make a release before that. If we want to do that we
> will likely have to start on it now.

Having a conference release is a good target.

Tcllib development has slowed down quite a bit from my perception. Not
so many new modules added in the last time.

I would think we should target a release twice a year, mainly to push
the recent bugfixes and new modules into all those downstream packagers
like Linux distros, Mac OS X, which probably do not build from CVS.

In fact just one new module since Tcllib 1.8:
tiff

There were various improvements, new submodules, etc. but in general its
not very much that was added, mostly bugfixes and some additional
functionality.

But there are still quite some bugs open (by module):
We could probably halve this number easily, as many bugs look easy to
solve, but just did not get enough attention.

ftp		18
mime		11
html		7
uri		6
counter		5
ncgi		4
logger		3
pop3		3
profiler	3
snit		3
ldap		3
base64 		2
cmdline 	2
comm		2
exif		2
ftpd		2
htmlparse	2
math::statistic 2
struct::graph	2
struct::tar	2
crc		1
dns		1
doctools	1
fileutil	1
fileutil::magic 1
inifile		1
log		1
math::geometry  1
stoop		1
struct::stack	1
struct::tree	1

We also have modules like imap4 which isn't included in the distribution
yet, because its incomplete, undocumented, untested.

Michael