ANNOUNCE: JTcl 2.2.0

[Tom Poindexter]

The JTcl team is happy to announce the release of JTcl 2.2.0.

Download at:
http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/downloads

New features:
- Backported Tcl 8.5 commands: lassign, lrepeat, and lreverse.
- JTcllib module ziplib to access and manipulate ZIP and JAR files.
- paraffin.tcl utility allows building self-contained JTcl applications.

Bug fixes:
- glob "" previously caused an exception, now treated as glob ".".
- An ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception was fixed in MarkableInputStream.



---README-------------------------------------------------------
JTcl - Tcl Language Interpreter in Java

http://jtcl.kenai.com

JTcl is an implementation of Tcl (Tool Command Language) written in Java.
JTcl implements a large extent of Tcl 8.4 syntax and commands, limited
only by API restrictions of the Java Virtual Machine. JTcl is based on
the Jacl interpreter (http://tcljava.sf.net)


INSTALLING JTCL

JTcl requires a Java JVM 1.5 or higher (Java 1.6 is recommended). You may
have to install Java if you don't already have it installed.

Download JTcl distribution from:

http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/downloads

JTcl is distributed as a ZIP archive. Download the latest
jtcl-{version}-bin.zip file from the JTcl website, and unzip into a directory
of your choice.

Unix/Linux/Mac OSX shell script (`jtcl') and Windows batch file (`jtcl.bat')
are included. Unix/Linux/OSX users may want to make a symbolic link
in /usr/local/bin (or any other directory on your PATH of your choice):

sudo ln -s `pwd`/jtcl /usr/local/bin


LICENSE

JTcl is licensed under BSD-style licenses by various copyright holders. See
the license.* files in the binary distribution files, or review at:

http://jtcl.kenai.com/licenses.html


SOURCE CODE

JTcl uses the Mercurial distributed source code control system. Install
Mercurial using your OS distribution package manager or get executables
from the Mercurial site: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Browse JTcl source code: http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/sources
Clone the JTcl repository: hg clone https://hg.kenai.com/hg/jtcl~jtcl-main

Sources to released versions can also be downloaded from:

http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/downloads

Download the jtcl-{version}-src.zip file and unzip into a directory
of your choice.


DOCUMENTATION

Local documentation, which consists a copy of the the JTcl web site, can be
downloaded from:

http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/downloads

Documenation is distributed as a ZIP archive, Download the latest
jtcl-{version}-doc.zip file from the JTcl website, and unzip into a directory
of your choice.


MAILING LIST and BUG REPORTING

Please subscribe and use the JTcl mailing list for questions and to
share information. The JTcl Bug tracker should be used to
report bugs.

Mailing lists: http://kenai.com/projects/jtcl/lists
Bug reporting: http://kenai.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=jtcl


**The JTcl Team**

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Tom Poindexter
tpoi...@nyx.net