From: Bob Techentin <techentin.robert@mayo.edu> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 19) Date: 21 Jun 2000 09:54:00 -0700 Big news is the Tcl 8.4 roadmap, presented by the Ajuba core team [TCT] http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.4.roadmap.html Take a look at the planned features, and consider volunteering. There's a lot of good stuff going on. See the discussion http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634022325 One branch thread on localization included several volunteers to add new languages to the message catalog http://deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=634807657 For a fascinating update on the uses of Itcl/Tk in the development of the Mars Pathfinder flight code, see this posting from one of the Pathfinder project's engineers http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634056756 Follow the whole thread to see more on testing, provably correct code, and design by contract. Although officially announced last week, Don Porter's drop-in replacement for the package utility has been discussed. In particular, Don responded to a request for specific details of the advantages of his new package scheme. http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=634205536 On compiling Tcl on the Mac ... Nobody had gotten around to building 8.3.1, which is much more stable than 8.3.0. Jim Ingham and Donal Fellows are consipiring to describe the process http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/CompilingTclOnAMac Oh, and look for new binaries real soon now too. Does anybody know how the byte code compiler really works? After some group rumination, Brian Lewis piped up with a post in which he states that he does, in fact, remember how things work, and also posted a pointer to a paper which gives an overview of the compiler http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=635144338 Which VC++ should I buy? Opinions abound, with a lot of hints for using the free cygwin compiler on Windows, or even cross compiling from Linux. http://deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=634360981 Paul Duffin reiterates, with only moderate shouting, the simplicity of Tcl's Stubs mechanism and its benefit of CROSS PLATFORM CONSISTENCY. For a little more complete description, see http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636307009 The First European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting is over, and as promised, the papers are available http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636315742 Quote of the Week is a dead-on tie: Paul Duffin: Sexy things are just too distracting for me to do my job properly and trendy things always cost too much and have to be changed too often ;-) Mo DeJong: Java is a great language, but don't ever try to write a GUI in Java. Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/ Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/ They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/ NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/ Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/ Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project. -- Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]