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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 3)

Uwe Klein

2006-10-02, 7:06 pm

QOTW: "oo::define is a DWIM." - Joe English "Yes, but it virtually always
gets it right." - Donal K. Fellows in reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

"[C]ivilizing blocking interfaces is one of the sensible uses of
threads." - Donald Porter

POTW:
ANNOUNCE: XOTcl 1.5.1 available
XOTcl 1.5.1 is available. This is mostly a bugfix release, but contains
as well an improved API for developing XOTcl-methods in C. Many thanks
to the community for the input and the reports. Especially many thanks
to Scott Gargash for the discussion and suggestions for improving the
C-level API.
homepage: http://www.xotcl.org/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...7e956aa079fa89e

ANNOUNCE: splash library by Manuel Frecon
The splash library implements a new Tcl/Tk toplevel widget that aims at
showing one (or more) splash windows during the initialisation phase of
an application or any other lengthy operation. The library opens a
pseudo-widget and offers a number of configuration options to control
the appearance and behaviour of the splash window.
download: http://www.sics.se/~emmanuel/?Code:splash
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...97ffe5a95ee3bfe

ANN: Release of TclRAL Version 0.8 by Andrew Mangogna
I'm pleased to announce the availability of Version 0.8 of TclRAL,
a Relational Algebra package for Tcl. Version 0.8 is a complete rewrite
of 0.7 and includes many new commands, especially those for enforcing
referential integrity.
I will be giving a presentation on TclRAL at the upcoming Tcl
conference and this release coincides with the paper and
presentation for the conference.
homepage: http://tclral.sourceforge.net
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...2904a423f83fbf7

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl

Tcl and various packages broken in configure
This is a recurring point mentioned and not a specific
newsposting characterized by "syntax error near unexpected token"
The error is bash related and will be fixed in future bash versions.
Meanwhile:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bas...g/msg01854.html

Exec a program on Windows that contains ( ) in the filename
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...3ce89be20ad0ce9

How to copy a proc
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...fd5817a0f503e63

Porting Tcl/Tk to Java
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...6246e1dd58b35d1

Debug API in the core?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...4bd8689191b7ef1

problem with attachments using tcllib smtp/mime
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...0a2ebd8dbbae828

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
This was a tipsy w

( and maybe with a slight hangover ):

TIP 268 by Jeff Hobbs : Enhance 'package' Version Handling
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/268.html
state has changed from Accepted to Final

TIP 275 by Pat Thoyts : Support Unsigned Values in binary Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/275.html
is a new TIP

TIP 119 by Simon Geard : Angled Text on a Canvas
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/119.html
TIP 264 by George Petasis : Add Function to Retrieve the Interpreter of a Window
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/264.html
TIP 275 by Pat Thoyts : Support Unsigned Values in binary Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/275.html
All 3: Vote: In progress

TIP 257 by Donal K. Fellows : Object Orientation for Tcl
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257.html
Glimpses into the implementation of this TIP have
resulted in large masses of expectations vanishing.
the resulting "Tsunami" seems to have run its course.
people are sieving through their belongings to see what
is broken ( some dreams?).
http://sourceforge.net/search/index...m_submit=Search
http://groups.google.com/groups/sea...3Acomp.lang.tcl
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257.html

OOTW: Orphan of the w

or questions nobody answered yet:
New tcludp release. When?

TWIP: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this w

TEN years ago:
Proposed improvement to package loading
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...7133fe31224890b

ASTcl-1.0 AppleScript package for Tcl/Tk
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...d29c86f1d9e7d88

experimental, extensible Linux NFS server soon to be
This seems to be FUSE done over NFS and in (but not limited to) Guile.
This was a floater for an idea:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...3f4452c4db36a36
Not really OnTopic but an advisable read to some:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...182f9880638a3c2

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
A year ago your chronicler started his summary for w

39 with
XOTcl and a debate about object-orientation ... History repeats
itself!

TIP 257 ...
- Notes on TIP 257: now that the implementation is there,
lots of details are beginning to show up - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14754>

- Of course XOTcl is not Snit is not Incr Tcl, but well, Tcl is
the chameleontic language, isn't it? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14773>

A picture says more than a thousand words
- With a suitable OS displaying the computer's activity is
simple - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16946>

- Here is yet another web content management system in Tcl.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13367> is alive and kicking

- A new kind of graphical presentation? Well, see for yourself,
the picture looks cute - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16931>

- Fortran bindings for good old Tk: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4000>
guides you to a provisional home page.

Politics
- It is a myth that Tcl be slower than Perl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1799>
has "independent" evidence.

- A voting system inevitably contains an algorithm to distribute
the votes over the seats. The system used in Flemish Belgium
is illustrated on this Wiki page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16940>

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
http://www.tcl.tk

Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
maintain references to their own software:
http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things
Tcl.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are supposed to be
listed at *Dr. Dobbs*, but sy

at CMP has fallen behind. We're working
with them to restore the archive.
http://www.ddj.com/topic/tcl/
In the meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=...p=comp.lang.tcl

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Pat Thoyts

2006-10-03, 8:33 am

Uwe Klein <tcl-url@phaseit.net> writes:

>OOTW: Orphan of the w

or questions nobody answered yet:
> New tcludp release. When?

When I get around to it.

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Cameron Laird

2006-10-03, 7:04 pm

In article <efsbat$m5e$1@lairds.us>, Uwe Klein <tcl-url@phaseit.net> wrote:

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