I'm slowly (re)learning Tcl/Tk and enjoying the process. I'm starting
with Nadkarni's excellent book.
But I'm wondering about the state of Tcl/Tk.
- The most recent alpha for Tcl/Tk 8.7 was released almost two years ago.
- The extension repository https://core.tcl-lang.org/jenglish/gutter/
doesn't seem to have been updated for about five years. Or has this
been superceded by something/somewhere else?
- I notice that on the developer site there's mention of Tcl 9.0.
Is 8.7 likely to be released, or will 9.0 be the next significant release?
And purely out of curiosity (I'm happy enough with 8.6*) is there a
release schedule, or is it a matter of "it'll be released when it's
ready"?
Mark <[email protected]> writes:
I'm slowly (re)learning Tcl/Tk and enjoying the process. I'm starting
with Nadkarni's excellent book.
But I'm wondering about the state of Tcl/Tk.
- The most recent alpha for Tcl/Tk 8.7 was released almost two years ago.
- The extension repository https://core.tcl-lang.org/jenglish/gutter/
doesn't seem to have been updated for about five years. Or has this
been superceded by something/somewhere else?
- I notice that on the developer site there's mention of Tcl 9.0.
Is 8.7 likely to be released, or will 9.0 be the next significant release?
Tcl and Tk development is managed by the Tcl Core Team (TCT). I'm not a member of this team, so I'm just commenting as someone who try to follow things as he can.
The original official plan was (and maybe is) to have both Tcl 8.7 and
Tcl 9 more of less in parallel. The according Tk will be work with both.
During the last half year it was brought up by a few that it maybe would
be better to skip 8.7 and have only 9.0. (Disclaimer: I tend to support
this position.) Although, there are no decisions so far by the TCT, not
even the decision that there is to take a decision.
And purely out of curiosity (I'm happy enough with 8.6*) is there a
release schedule, or is it a matter of "it'll be released when it's
ready"?
I'm not aware of a official release schedule, so it's perhaps the later.
The problem is that we need 8.7 not now, but in the past (yesterday).
Tcl 8.6 is dated, unicode support is severely lacking. Emojis are
everywhere.
George
Στις 4/6/2023 1:17 π.μ., ο/η Rolf Ade έγραψε:
Mark <[email protected]> writes:
I'm slowly (re)learning Tcl/Tk and enjoying the process. I'm starting
with Nadkarni's excellent book.
But I'm wondering about the state of Tcl/Tk.
- The most recent alpha for Tcl/Tk 8.7 was released almost two years
ago.
- The extension repository https://core.tcl-lang.org/jenglish/gutter/
doesn't seem to have been updated for about five years. Or has this
been superceded by something/somewhere else?
- I notice that on the developer site there's mention of Tcl 9.0.
Is 8.7 likely to be released, or will 9.0 be the next significant
release?
Tcl and Tk development is managed by the Tcl Core Team (TCT). I'm not a
member of this team, so I'm just commenting as someone who try to follow
things as he can.
The original official plan was (and maybe is) to have both Tcl 8.7 and
Tcl 9 more of less in parallel. The according Tk will be work with both.
During the last half year it was brought up by a few that it maybe would
be better to skip 8.7 and have only 9.0. (Disclaimer: I tend to support
this position.) Although, there are no decisions so far by the TCT, not
even the decision that there is to take a decision.
And purely out of curiosity (I'm happy enough with 8.6*) is there a
release schedule, or is it a matter of "it'll be released when it's
ready"?
I'm not aware of a official release schedule, so it's perhaps the later.
I'm slowly (re)learning Tcl/Tk and enjoying the process. I'm starting with Nadkarni's excellent book.
What worries me, is, how tcl lost popularity:
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Why? Why?!
"tcl lost popularity"
I remember that was a recurrent topic in the early to mid oughts.
And yet, here we are.
I'm slowly (re)learning Tcl/Tk and enjoying the process. I'm starting with Nadkarni's excellent book.
But I'm wondering about the state of Tcl/Tk.
- The most recent alpha for Tcl/Tk 8.7 was released almost two years ago.
- The extension repository https://core.tcl-lang.org/jenglish/gutter/ doesn't seem to have been updated for about five years. Or has this been superceded by something/somewhere else?
- I notice that on the developer site there's mention of Tcl 9.0.
Is 8.7 likely to be released, or will 9.0 be the next significant release?
And purely out of curiosity (I'm happy enough with 8.6*) is there a release schedule, or is it a matter of "it'll be released when it's ready"?
* Although for 8.7 (or 9.0) I'm looking forward to being able to use 0d for integers because I've been caught out on that; also for ttk widgets to respect my cursor blink rate.
Just to comment on the package repository. In short, we do not have a
central repository (although I feel we really, really should have it). **************************
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:18:35 -0700 (PDT), Torsten Berg wrote:
Just to comment on the package repository. In short, we do not have a >central repository (although I feel we really, really should have it). **************************
Just out of curiosity, is there any clear criterion for packages to be
added to the core distribution?
--
Luc
Just to comment on the package repository. In short, we do not have a central repository (although I feel we really, really should have it).
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