Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 08:52:15 -0800
From: John Ousterhout <john.ousterhout@scriptics.com>
Subject: Scriptics roadmap

We have been busy lately planning our engineering projects at Scriptics
for the next six months or so.  Here is a rough outline of what we're
working on and when you can expect it to be released.

TclPro 1.1 (beta in the next day or two, final in late November):
    The primary purpose of this release is to add support for Linux
    (RedHat 5.x and other Linux systems that support glibc) and SGI
    IRIX (6.2 and above).  There are also several improvements to
    TclPro Checker, such as checking the number of arguments to Tcl
    procedures, plus minor bug fixes for all the tools.

Tcl/Tk 8.0.4 (final in late November):
    This fixes a few bugs with Tcl/Tk 8.0.3.

TclPro 1.2 (first beta around January 1, 1999, final late February 1999):
    This release will expand the list of extensions that are bundled
    with TclPro and add a network license manager to enhance enterprise
    usage.  The new bundled extensions will include at least Expect and
    TclX, and possibly others.

Tcl/Tk 8.1 (first beta early December, final mid-March 1999):
    These are major new releases of Tcl and Tk.  Their most important
    new features are internationalization (Unicode is used internally
    to support Asian and other multibyte character sets), thread
    safety, and a new regular expression package that adds most of
    the Perl regular expression features as well as supporting
    Unicode and binary data.  Tcl/Tk 8.1 is already available in
    alpha form from the Scriptics Web site (http://www.scriptics.com)
    and is nearly feature-complete.

Future TclPro releases:
    As soon as possible after Tcl/Tk 8.1 is released we will make a
    new release of TclPro that supports Tcl/Tk 8.1.  In this release
    the TclPro tools will work with Tcl/Tk 8.1 applications and all of
    the bundled extensions will run under Tcl/Tk 8.1.  There may also
    be improvements in the TclPro tools set.
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John Ousterhout                            650-843-6902 tel
Chief Executive Officer                    650-843-6909 fax
Scriptics Corporation                      john.ousterhout@scriptics.com
The Tcl Platform Company                   http://www.scriptics.com