Re: [Tile-dev] Release plans

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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:58:29AM -0700, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> > On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> > > problem.  Noone is playing nag-meister.  Another issue is that noon=
e 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?
>=20
> 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-d=
efining
> in itself.  There are of course many more changes already:
> 	http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630

There is a fair amount of stuff there.

Personally, I'd vote for getting Tile in there and calling it a release.
If the community focussed on that it could get done and there would at
least be some visible forward progress.
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