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.


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'''Urgent/required features missing in Tcl'''
   1. Support for OO development.  [Minimal OO requirements for Tcl] is the start of some work on defining this.
   1. More basic functions that the Tcl programmer can invoke.  What, specifically though, needs to be added?

'''Features that would be useful/helpful/cute but not necessary'''
   1. I would put bundling itcl or other extensions into this category myself.  This is because an application developer can make use of technologies like [TclKit], Freewrap, the TclWrap, etc. to create a stand alone bundle of code.  Having one or more existing extensions guaranteed to be present on the desktop if Tcl is there becomes, in my mind, a helpful, but not critical/necessary wish.

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Joe's Current Wish List...

   1. A "file truncate" command.    --> see [ftruncate] in [TclX]
      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).
   2. An "lsearch -nocase" option, for uniformity with string match.
   3. Bug fixes to make loading/unloading/reloading Tcl/Tk work properly.
   4. Blue Sky #1: all "known issues" fixed.
   5. Blue Sky #2: fully thread-safe/bulletproof Tk.

   JJM
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   1. a built in debugger ala perl that lets you single step and examine variables. TclPro, RamDebugger, idebug, etc. all fall short