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ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.71

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Steve Bennett

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Jun 24, 2011, 12:06:23 AM6/24/11
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ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.71
==============================

Jim Tcl 0.71 has been released and is available from:

http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.70
==========================

This release incorporates bug fixes and
several new features, including:

Bugs fixed
- Line editing works better on serial consoles
- Fix various parsing bugs and crashes in unusual cases
- package require now loads packages at the global level
- string trim* and string last are now 8-bit clean and faster
- exec child processes are now reaped
- FD_CLOEXEC is now set on opened filehandles
- dlopen() handles are now freed on freeing interpreter

Features added
- Add optional support for the binary command
- Test suite is now tcltests v2 compatible
- proc 'args' can now be renamed
- Automatic proc upref args are now supported with &varname
- expr shorthand syntax with $(...)
- Previous proc definitions can be saved with local and invoked with
upcall
- Non-greedy regexp/regsub support with the built-in regexp
implementation
- Minimal exec implementation is supported even without vfork/waitpid
- configure is now faster and simpler with autosetup (https://
github.com/msteveb/autosetup)
- Add string byterange
- Ability to create a single source file bootstrap jimsh
- Added debian packaging support

WHAT IS Jim Tcl?
================

Jim is an implementation of the Tcl language, designed to be
small, fast and easy to cross-compile. It includes many features from
Tcl 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6, plus additional Jim-only features such as
lambdas, references and garbage collection.

WHERE IS Jim Tcl?
=================

Repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git
Project Page: http://jim.berlios.de/
Documentation: http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/Tcl_shipped.html
Wiki page: http://wiki.tcl.tk/Jim
Mailing List: https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/jim-devel

gavino

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Jun 28, 2011, 6:39:16 PM6/28/11
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On Jun 23, 9:06 pm, Steve Bennett <ste...@workware.net.au> wrote:
> ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.71
> ==============================
>
> Jim Tcl 0.71 has been released and is available from:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.gitorhttps://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

tell us more about continuations and web servers

gavino

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Jun 28, 2011, 6:47:17 PM6/28/11
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On Jun 23, 9:06 pm, Steve Bennett <ste...@workware.net.au> wrote:
> ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.71
> ==============================
>
> Jim Tcl 0.71 has been released and is available from:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.gitorhttps://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

nice

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