Status of 8.7 * Can we get it out the door? * What is holding it up? ** Review 8.7 draft TIPs for "must haves" * At what point do we start back porting features to 8.6 - particular msgcat New text widget * status ? * Brian G look at it before next meeting Tk 9.0 * Do we need it for breaking changes? * Remove the cruft (8 bit / 16 bit limits) * List of changes needed? Tcl 9.0 * strong support for getting 9.0 out the door from Rolf ** 2Gb string limit ** full unicode support Discussions: * Detlef Groth discussed his [pandoc-tcl-filter] work * Detlef Groth showed how to read and write to python3 and R pipes, code now at the end of [Example of reading and writing to a piped command] * Steve Huntley discussed [tclmake] New people introduced: * Alwyn Teh * Matthew Lai * Mark Case Questions: * Alwyn asked about mixing threads and coroutines, resulted in lots of discussion about people using both Next meeting time: * The meeting time was seen as helpful for European and America time zone. * It was considered, that the next meeting may be at a time appropriate for Asian/Australien citizens ****Appreciation**** Thanks to Steve Landers for leading the monthly TCL calls. <<categories>> Monthly Virtual Meetup