'''The "Clone Don Porter" Project''' aims to fund full-time resources to
perform work under the guidance of a [Tcl Core Team] member.



** Attributes **

    start time:   2018-05-06

    monthly funding requirement:   16000€



** Description **

The goal of this project is to accomplish tasks that facilitate [dgp%|%dgp's]
continued efforts to improve Tcl.  The project will run for a minimum of 30
days and will continue as long as there is sufficient funding and available
resources.  The work queue will be curated directly or indirectly by [dgp].
Coordination and communication will occur primarily in the [Tcl Chatroom].

Funding will be solicited from individuals and other entities with an interest
in Tcl.



** Recommendations **

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** Work Queue **

   [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/498.md%|%TIP 498]:   Fix memory leaks

   epoll:   Fix memory leaks

   [trace]:   Improve error handling and resolve other known issues.

   [array]:   Redesign machinery to support `array for` and array searches
          :   c.f. http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/e87bcf819f03cea4

   Tk:   Modify to use interface of [TIP] [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/445.md%|%445], or demonstrate deficincies in that TIP.

   [http://core.tcl.tk/itcl/tktview?name=050ac21f73%|%info variable introspection gap]:   



** Work Performed **

   [http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/cb43f6d65ac8a106%|%deduplicate code in string comparision functions]:   Also avoid generating the string representation of pure lists and dictionaries when comparing with the [empty string].





** Other Ideas **


   [TDBC%|%TDBC::ODBC]:   Revise to support systems with 32-bit `SQLWCHAR`.  See the [https://www.androwish.org/index.html/artifact/04f34801b08fbd96%|%androwish fork].

   [TDBC%|%TDBC::sqlite]:   Reduce memory consumption for large result sets

   [TDBC%|%TDBC::sqlite]:   Resolve known issues regarding duplicate column names in results

   [TDBC]:   Move looping constructs down into [C].



** Funding **




** Comments **

[SYStems] 2018-05-07: Can we add a Tcl/Tk modern IDE to that list :)








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