Jan 22 Tcl Meetup notes

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.