Re: [Tile-dev] Release plans

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> > problem.  Noone is playing nag-meister.  Another issue is that noone =
is
> > pointing out a "critical" need for 8.5 - feature-wise or company =20
> > backing.  So why nag?
>=20
> So what's the value of 8.5? I mean, if every single feature that is =20
> existent in 8.5 has been back-ported to 8.4. What's 8.5's=20
> raison d'=EAtre?

Exactly - that is the best response so far for Larry's other question.  =
It has
no raison d'=EAtre currently.  It is waiting for Ttk inclusion (which I =
have
mostly sandboxed, but is totally lacking doc and needs more tests) and
(possibly) oo.  Each is a feature-defining release point.  8.5 also has
{expand} and dict, but dict is backported and {expand} is not =
release-defining
in itself.  There are of course many more changes already:
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630

While they may fill up a whole, it's nothing earth-shattering to many.  =
8.5
without Tile and/or oo might as well not be (IOW: can wait).

Jeff