'''The "Clone Don Porter" Project''' aims to fund full-time resources to
perform work under the guidance of a [Tcl Core Team] member.



** Attributes **

    start time:   2018-05-06

    months active:   0

    currently funded:   0€

    monthly funding requirement:   16000€

    numbr of individual financial supporters:   0

    number of organizational supporters:   0 



** Description **

The goal of this project is to accomplish tasks that facilitate [dgp%|%dgp's]
continued efforts to improve Tcl.  The project will run for a minimum of 30
days and will continue as long as there is sufficient funding and available
resources.  The work queue will be curated directly or indirectly by [dgp].
Coordination and communication will occur primarily in the [Tcl Chatroom].

Funding will be solicited from individuals and other entities with an interest
in Tcl.



** Recommendations **

Please voice your confidence in or support for this project here!

[APN] I'm all for this project but sadly, can only offer moral, not financial, support!
Good luck with getting the backing.

[DEC] Could this be funded via Patreon?


** Active  ** 



** Completed **


   [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/498.md%|%TIP 498], [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/0fe6ceff5cdbea2e%|%Fix memory leak due to reference counting error]:   

   [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/498.md%|%TIP 498], [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/8d4c3590c5bd0a9a%|%Move refCount management of lookupNsPtr out of "resolve:/goto resolve" block]:   

   [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/498.md%|%TIP 498], [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/df82243aa575d357%|%Fix reference counting error in TclRenameCommand]:   

   [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/498.md%|%TIP 498], [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/3bf90104138a1ec2%|%Fix memory leak in Tcl_DeleteNamespace]:   

   [http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/cb43f6d65ac8a106%|%deduplicate code in string comparison functions]:   Also avoid generating the string representation of pure lists and dictionaries when comparing with the [empty string].

   [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/27635d54b254abcebde7c21ef4a47b64b028a19f%|%Fix memory leak] in [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/458.md%|%epoll]:   Cleanup the eventfd trigger file info created during initialization.



** Waiting **

   * [trace]:   Improve error handling and resolve other known issues.


   * [array]:   Redesign machinery to support `array for` and array searches
          :   c.f. http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/e87bcf819f03cea4

   * Tk:   Modify to use interface of [TIP] [https://core.tcl.tk/tips/doc/trunk/tip/445.md%|%445], or demonstrate deficiencies in that TIP.

   * [http://core.tcl.tk/itcl/tktview?name=050ac21f73%|%info variable introspection gap]:   

   * [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?n=100&r=aspect-string-match%|%aspect-string-match]:   complete the work started by [aspect] to streamline and deduplicate string matching routines.



** Proposed **

   * [TDBC%|%TDBC::ODBC]:   Revise to support systems with 32-bit `SQLWCHAR`.  See the [https://www.androwish.org/index.html/artifact/04f34801b08fbd96%|%androwish fork].

   * [TDBC%|%TDBC::sqlite]:   Reduce memory consumption for large result sets

   * [TDBC%|%TDBC::sqlite]:   Resolve known issues regarding duplicate column names in results

   * [TDBC]:   Move looping constructs down into [C].

   * Deduplicate code in [string match]ing functions. In the same area see ticket [https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/a4a7f2abd376b2806073%|%Exponential complexity for bad patterns instead of linear].



** Funding **





** Comments **

[SYStems] 2018-05-07: Can we add a Tcl/Tk modern IDE to that list :)

[ak] I believe that one is a step to far and big.

[SYStems] let's do it then :) 

[APN] One performance enhancement I would like, if you are taking RFE's, is faster
calls to commands implemented in C extensions. They are currently significantly slower
than bytecoded commands.

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