Purpose: develop a list of needs and wishes for someone developing stand alone or suites of applications. See also Extension Developer's Wishlist for Tcl and Application User's Wishlist for Tcl. Tk can also be covered here (we can spin it off to a new page if necessary).
What constitutes urgent or required? Good question. What is critical for one person might be fluff or nonsense to someone else. The best I can do is give this kind of guideline. I would personally consider a feature urgent and needed in Tcl if it required the core to be modified, or extensive new code to be developed (as opposed to a wrapping for an existing library), to support some feature that might be useful to more than one customer.
Tcl 9.0 Wishlist would, in my mind, be a subset of the total wishlist.
Urgent/required features missing in Tcl
Features that would be useful/helpful/cute but not necessary
Joe's Current Wish List...
NOTE: I meant a truncate command that is in the core, is fully cross platform, and operates on an open file_id (I have part of an implementation for Win32 done already).
JJM
AK: What is missing from TclPro to make it fall short in your eyes ?
PSW:
Is it really bgexec that you want, or just easier control of stdout and stderr? bgexec has most of the limitations of Tcl's exec and it seems a shame to continue those if something new were being added.
Breadcrust's Wish List
1. Fileevent errorreadable to allow the programs to take care of stderr instead of having to redirect it or using catch. 2. Ability to read more hardware ports on all platforms (eg - Parallel, USB, IR). 3. Something like TclX's filelist built-in. 4. Tk image rotate 5. Toplevel -title -geometry & -icon options 6. wm iconbitmap -defualt on all platforms, not just windoze 7. Command to change window icon to image stored in variable 8. Statusbar & Iconbar widgets 9. Linux kernal level Tcl execution (MISC plug-in driver)