Am 24.11.2023 um 11:45 schrieb Alex P:
About the tilde issue, please look to the migration guide:
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/wiki?name=Migrating+scripts+to+Tcl+9
A must for migrating, the best link of all! Thank you.
Well, Harald, you see how my Tcl/Tk knowledge is deprecated and how am ignorant about Tcl 9.0!
I've even not known about the great TIP 602 on tildes:
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/602.md
Uff, obviously the tilde problem has been deeply rooted in Tcl/Tk and will potentially spawn a lot of cries at accepting 9.0 as the mainstream of Tcl. Those who will overcome it will remain with Tcl, others... let go their own way perhaps a better one
in their opinions.
Now I'm trying to adapt my alited app to Tcl/Tk 9.0 ... mostly well doing, still a total GUI test should be passed. My tough test is https://github.com/aplsimple/alited/releases/tag/Demos_of_alited-1.4 , now it's made with Tcl/Tk 8.6 and I hope it will
be nicely made with 9.0. Imho it's rather good test - for Tk, at least. Hopefully I'd try and note possible pitfalls of v9.0 at that, in order to share this experience however microscopic this experience would be.
That said, Tcl (incl. v9.0) is like a sport of boxing: many come still few rest.
Dear Alex,
yes, only the best will survive ;-).
I thank you for the testing. Your editor is just awesome !
Yes, a lot of basic things have changed.
The tilde story is about files we could not open.
By the way, TIP 771 is another unsolved issue in this respect.
It was moved to later...
But we hope, that we can, at least, open files with Emoji's in the name
now on all platforms (at least, Windows is failing in 8.6).
I can understand, that many of the changes are hard if you have a big
code base. But continuing with code full of bug-fixes and disabilities
is also hard. Most people say: we need it - go or die ;-).
Thanks that you are in the boat,
Harald
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