Re: [Tcllib-devel] Tcllib release / Tcl conference

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

> This year's Tcl conference is only 5 weeks away now and I have
> been prodded
> to make a release of Tcllib.
>
> [...] while I start the process
> of going over the modules, collect past changes and write updated README,
> CHANGES, etc. files.

Basic administrative stuff has been done, i.e. fixing version numbers. Most
of them were already in sync this time around. I guess due to most people
beginning to update the version information when they commit a change. That
is good.

I also ran a quick test on linux, against 4 shells

	linux-ix86/8.2.3/bin/wish8.2
	linux-ix86/8.3.5/bin/wish8.3
	linux-ix86/8.4.13/bin/wish8.4
	linux-ix86/8.5a7/bin/wish8.5

Only three problem zones.

 [8.3.5]  snit        ~~ FAILS T   628 P   590 S    35 F     3
 [8.5a7]  mime        ~~ FAILS T    91 P    87 S     0 F     4
 [8.5a7]  textutil    ~~ FAILS T   161 P   149 S     0 F    12

The mime/textutil problems seem to be encoding related, and possibly
indicate a core bug. I saw them in a test I ran a few weeks ago, and using a
lot more different 8.5 shells saw the problem appear and disappear as the
core changed. This one will need bi-section search to find out what changes
make it appear.

The snit failures are my responsibility, in code I introduced. Apparently
the 8.3 backport is not quite right.

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