Version 8 of The "Clone Don Porter" Project

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'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.

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Work Queue

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 445 , or demonstrate deficincies in that TIP.
info variable introspection gap :

Work Performed

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::ODBC: Revise to support systems with 32-bit SQLWCHAR. See the androwish fork .
TDBC::sqlite: Reduce memory consumption for large result sets
TDBC::sqlite: Resolve known issues regarding duplicate column names in results
TDBC: Move looping constructs down into C.
Deduplicate code in string matching functions. In the same area see ticket Exponetial complexity for bad patterns instead of linear .

Funding

Comments

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