Tcl-URL! - 2000/06/06

by Bill Schongar - DejaNews: [1]

• What's in a name? Ask "Ajuba", formerly known as Scriptics. Comments, concerns, and rationale abounds: (see DN625731613) and http://www.ajubasolutions.com
• Bubble, bubble, toil and... umm, sort? An implementation of a bubble sort in Tcl, with some curiosities on ways to improve it (or ecexution speed in general): (see DN625817031)
• Frederic Bonnet announces a new "Dictionary" object for Tcl, described as a byhrid between arrays and lists which preserves the internal has table, improving performance. (see DN626306323) Download the source at: http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/pub/dictionary.tar.gz
• Will Duquette announces version 2 of a Tcl-based macro expansion tool. (No, it's not for writing VBS-based viruses..) http://www.wjduquette.com/expand
• What you need to do HTTPS with Tcl, from a couple different angles: (see DN627522952)
• Jean-Luc Fontaine announces both BLT2.4 RPMs for RedHat and a new version of moodss (which requires BLT): BLT RPMs: http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.spec Moodss: http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3.tar.gz http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.spec
• How will it all be resolved? Thoughts on namespace resolution when Itcl is involved: (see DN626596607)
• Andreas Otto announces an update to his commercial Tcl compiler: http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/comp-main_E.html
• Frederic Bonnet announces version 2.0 of a Tcl exception and error handling package: http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TclExcept/index.htm
• What starts out as a simple question on dynamic variable names (var$1 through var$n) becomes an analysis on the possible methods and pitfalls of getting and setting those types of values: (see DN626733858)
• Break out your secret Base64 encoder/decoder rings, Tcl-cadets: (see DN626766895)
• George Staplin announces a new version of Aged, a Tcl/Tk programming editor: http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/aged/
• Harald Kirsch announces bras 0.99.5, a rule-based command tool somewhat similar to 'make': http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/
• There's something to be said for being willing to share... memory, that is. A pointer to accessing shared memory through Tcl: http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/tcl-faq/part5.html
• What kind of state is your extension in? Well, ask it! Queries on maintaining states with your extensions, and what API functions to link to to ensure it works: (see DN628773035)
• Is it wrong to be conservative? Some folks are wondering about the default CFLAGS used when compiling Tcl: (see DN629101529)
• Carsten's looking for other interested folks to discuss building real games in Tcl, and what kinds of widgets or interfaces to other APIs would help those type of efforts. Lots of neat pointers in this thread, especially to other packages compatible with Tcl: (see DN629128641)
• A few proposals on new clock commands for ISO formatting and other such fun things: (see DN629369199)
• Johannes Zellner announces Entity 0.6, an XML application framework: http://entity.evilplan.org/
• Jeff announces an update to the tclbench CVS collection, now with 179 benchmarking tests and new command line options: (see DN629711956)
• Don Porter announces package 0.0, a drop-in replacement for 'package' containing lots of the enhancements discussed in c.l.t. over the past few months: http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/tcltk/package/
• The European User Meeting final schedule has been posted, and is available at: http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk
• Jim Ingham, now a resident of Steve Jobs-land, provides some neat information on Tcl and compatibility with MacOS-X: (see DN630305722)