Version 16 of Frederic Bonnet

I am French and live in Rennes, France. I have been using Tcl/Tk since 1993. A number of annotations in the Wiki use the shortcut FB.

I have written some extensions:

tcLex: a lexical analyzer generator. http://www.purl.org/NET/bonnet/Tcl/tcLex/index.en.htm (home page), http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclex/ (SourceForge).
TclExcept: a simple exception-handling package à la Java/C++. http://www.purl.org/NET/bonnet/Tcl/TclExcept/index.en.htm
dictionary: a new Tcl data type, sort of cross-breed between lists and arrays. Dictionaries look like lists and use the same structure as array get/set outputs (ie key/value pairs). They are implemented internally using hash tables and thus give similar performances to Tcl arrays. http://www.purl.org/NET/bonnet/pub/dictionary.tar.gz

My current interests include:

TkGS: the Tk Graphics System. An effort to replace the current Xlib Emulation Layer (XLEL) with a cross-platform, device-independent layer. Goals: better performances on non-X platforms, greater modularity (device drivers), printing support... http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkgs (SourceForge), http://www.purl.org/NET/bonnet/Tcl/TkGS/ (specs, a bit outdated).
Themes support. I wrote TIP #48 [L1 ], which served as a basis for Joe English's work on Tile.

Project Cloverfield

Email addresses:

fredericbonnet at free.fr
fbonnet at users.sourceforge.net (this one may no longer be active).

CMcC I have attempted to send the following email to both of the above addresses, and to another address which I may not make public.

    Hi Frederick,

    I'm afraid I think Cloverfield is a walled garden on the wiki.  Why not establish an account on
    googlecode, or start a project on sourceforge?  The current incursion into wiki is (I think) becoming 
    disruptive, and starting to resemble a hijacking.

    Colin.

As I have received no response, I am taking the step of posting it here temporarily, as I know FB reads this.

I would like to strengthen my suggestion to a strong recommendation that the Cloverfield project be given a more suitable home, and this be done with all reasonable haste.

LV I only see 17 pages containing a reference to Cloverfield - including this page. That doesn't seem too bad, yet. However, I do understand that something like Cloverfield - a brand new language with roots in Tcl - has the potential to become a discussion point on most of the pages of this wiki, which could dilute the emphasis towards tcl on this wiki.

CMcC the welcome text is This is a collaboratively-edited area on the web, dedicated to the Tcl programming language and its extensions, including the Tk graphical toolkit. We can't support homing whole new projects of the apparent scale and scope FB seems to compass. I can't support it. What I've done, in the interim, is to move the Cloverfield pages off the Recent Changes page. If FB wants to rehome them somewhere, I'll restore the single Cloverfield page to Recent Changes control.

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