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

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

>Andreas Kupries wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>On the subject of bug fixes: I try to check from time to time if new
>bugs or requests have turned up for the modules I feel responsible
>for. But this is not a very systematic activity, I am afraid, and I
>guess many developers do it like that.

> A concerted action to clean up

Such concerted actions usually happen just before a release.

>the list of open bugs is a good incentive to be more pro-active.


>On the subject of new modules: I have at least one module that I would
>like to see in the next release - my diagram drawing stuff.

This is more tklib, not tcllib. Still, tklib needs a new release as well, right.

> The code
>is more or less ready, it needs to be cleaned up a bit and there needs
>to be a proper manual, but that is doable within the current
>timescale. (I am thinking of another one too, but that is not
>available in easily distributable, electronic form yet, just as a
>pattern of neuron bindings, or whatever is molecularly going on in my
>head ;)).

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        Andreas Kupries <and...@Ac...>
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