Feb 22 Tcl Meetup Notes
possible topics
- Google Summer Of Code 2022 SEH
- Tcl 9 - how can we help make it happen? stevel
- Unicode / 8.7 / 9.0 oehhar et al
Tcl 9
- Brian looked at text widget .... <details please?>
- Tcl 9 beta ... any reason why not?
Robert Parker asked about json
Simon
- excited about Tcl 9
- would like to help
- is there a consolidated list of things that need doing? (Brian suggested the core ticket list)
- is there a consolidated list of what has been changed?
- is there a consolidated list of breaking changes?
- does 8.7 set changes in concrete too early? (Nathan please expand)
Unicode
- Tcl 9 full unicode
- do we need 8.7 compatibility? (Nathan, please expand)
- should we just jump to 9 and forget about 8.7? (Ashok)
8.7
- Ashok suggested getting 8.7 out without unicode changes ASAP, Brian supported
- We want to get 8.7 & 9.0 out. Many great TIPS are ready since 8 years and we do not get them in production (apn, oehhar). How can we unblock a release?
- pooryorick stated that he will skip 8.7 and invest only in 9.0. We have a lack of resources and 8.7 is just another complexity.
- 8.7. exists because of the octal change, which is a breaking change on the string level stevel
chw talked about some of the fancy stuff he's been doing - including rotating color emoji on a canvas. There was a discussion, if it was possible to have the sdl+agg branch in tk core.