Tcl Meetup 2022-08-09
Topics
dkf - 2022-08-09 14:51:25
Channel encoding issues: errors should be selectable, not on default. Three stratgies:
Choose with chan configure?
dkf - 2022-08-09 16:03:45
There was agreement (after discussion) that we should have a deadline for when features for 8.7 should be in by, and that the deadline probably ought to be 1 October, 2022. (Arbitrary, but soon. A month earlier was suggested, but was thought to be a bit too soon due to various holidays.) That would likely result in a release of both 8.7 and 9.0 this year, though 9.0 might only be a beta.
We noted that we're fairly sure that Tcl and Tk are building and testing correctly on major platforms; the only thing that might be a blocker is anything that is accepted as a contrib package. I believe we can just take the latest working versions of those when a release is made, and do another release if a later working version is available.
Strategic concerns:
We need to identify which TIPs should get effort to get in. Justification for that is where they offer a major new capability or where they fix something that will otherwise be awful to mend later.
arjen - 2022-08-10 06:50:19
After the meetup I realised that the single-file distribution would solve a nagging issue for using Tcl as an embedded library in, say, a Fortran program. I did some experiments with one of the available builds and got a very nice result. Not everything I wanted succeeded yet and there are a few steps to take, but it is a start and it was an evening well-spent, I think :). More to come - for instance: the steps I mentioned.