From: hershey@scriptics.com (Melissa Hirschl) Subject: announcing the 2nd beta release of TclPro 1.2! Date: 13 Feb 1999 12:07:00 -0800 Scriptics is pleased to announce the second beta release of TclPro 1.2, featuring two powerful and popular open source extensions (Expect 5.28 on Unix, and TclX 8.0.5) and new shared network licenses. In addition, TclPro 1.2 introduces new features for TclPro Debugger and TclPro Checker, as well as a number of bug fixes. Expect and TclX --------------- TclPro 1.2 bundles the 8.0 version of TclX, written by Mark Diekhans and Karl Lehenbauer, and the 5.28 version of Expect, written by Don Libes. Please note that Expect is only supported on Unix platforms. TclX, also known as Extended Tcl, is designed to make Tcl easier for systems programming and programming in the large. TclX provides additional interfaces to the native operating system, as well as many new programming constructs and text manipulation commands. Expect adds Tcl commands for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy to interact with and control terminal-based legacy applications. Shared Network License or Named User License -------------------------------------------- TclPro customers now can choose which license works best for them: a shared network license, or a named user license. As before, a named user license for TclPro allows one named developer to use TclPro on any of the platforms we support; the license cannot be used by other developers. Scriptics' new shared network license allows groups or departments to install TclPro and share a license pack; the minimum size is a 5-license pack, which allows up to 5 developers to use TclPro at the same time. Scriptics License Server, which manages the shared network licenses, can be installed on any supported Unix platform and has a browser-based front-end, so license management and monitoring can be easily performed from any desktop. Although Scriptics License Server only runs on Unix, it serves licenses to TclPro tools running on both Unix and Windows. TclPro Debugger enhancements ---------------------------- This release includes the following enhancements: * All the TclPro tools now fully support Expect (Unix) and TclX. * TclPro Debugger performance improvement: TclPro Debugger now performs single-stepping much more quickly than in TclPro 1.1. * TclPro Debugger now makes it easier to define, save, restart, and set preferences for projects by offering a new file-based project interface. With this interface, user can do the following: - set separate debugging preferences for each project - choose the project to start from the prodebug command line - specify preferences for remote projects - share project files among users - run a project without automatically stopping on the first line * TclPro Debugger now displays the result of each step, so you can see results of subexpressions as they are evaluted. * TclPro Debugger offers improved error handling. There is a new option to intercept all errors, including errors generated inside the "catch" construct. Also, you now have the option to break at an error and propagate the error upon continuing. * TclPro Checker now makes it faster and easier to check the syntax of Tcl scripts by accepting input from stdin. To check the syntax of a Tcl command, you can just type the following on the command line: echo info foo | procheck Procheck will flag a "badOption" error and print a list of valid options to the "info" command. (RFE ID 733) * Multiple-platform installation (Unix CD-ROM only): TclPro is now also easier to use in cross-platform environments, enabling a single installation of TclPro to be used for multiple platforms on a shared Unix file server. To download a free 30-day beta copy of TclPro 1.2 for testing and evaluation, please visit our Web site at: http://www.scriptics.com/tclpro/eval/beta.html We're very interested in receiving your comments, including bug reports and requests for enhancements. We prefer that you report bugs and request enhancements by filling in the form at http://www.scriptics.com/support/bugForm.html If you have any questions or comments, please email beta@scriptics.com. We really appreciate your feedback. Melissa Hirschl QA/Release Engineer Scriptics Corporation The Tcl Platform Company [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]