Feb 22 Tcl Meetup Notes
possible topics
- Google Summer Of Code 2022 SEH
- Tcl 9 - how can we help make it happen? stevel
- Unicode / 8.7 / 9.0 oehhar et al
Tcl 9
- Brian looked at the new text widget. There are some core dumps in tests to address. The purpose of the new text widget is speed.
- Tcl 9 beta. Any reason why not?
Robert Parker asked about json
Simon
- excited about Tcl 9
- would like to help
- is there a consolidated list of things that need doing? (Brian suggested the core ticket list)
- is there a consolidated list of what has been changed?
- is there a consolidated list of breaking changes?
- does 8.7 set changes in concrete too early? (Nathan please expand)
Unicode
- Tcl 9 full unicode
- do we need 8.7 compatibility? (Nathan, please expand)
- should we just jump to 9 and forget about 8.7? (Ashok)
8.7
- Ashok suggested getting 8.7 out without unicode changes ASAP, Brian supported.
- Ashok asked about the driver for 8.7 in the TCL. stevel answered that it is clearly Don Porter who decides about the release progress. Next meeting, he might attend (7pm UTC was proposed by stevel).
- We want to get 8.7 & 9.0 out. Many great TIPS are ready since 8 years and we do not get them in production (apn, oehhar). How can we unblock a release?
- pooryorick stated that he will skip 8.7 and invest only in 9.0. We have a lack of resources and 8.7 is just another complexity.
- 8.7. exists because of the octal change, which is a breaking change on the string level Brian
chw talked about some of the fancy stuff he's been doing - including rotating color emoji on a canvas. There was a discussion, if it was possible to have the sdl+agg branch in tk core.