Version 9 of Jan 22 Tcl Meetup notes

Updated 2022-01-12 05:21:50 by DDG

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:

New people introduced:

  • Alwyn
  • Matthew
  • Mark

Questions:

  • Alwyn asked about mixing threads and coroutines, resulted in lots of discussion about people using both