ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0b8 released

[AndreasK]

ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0
Beta 8, a beta release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl
distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX;
based on the Tcl/Tk 8.6b3 core.

For detailed information or to download these releases, see:
http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/

== New in ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0b8 ==

A beta update release with updates, including:

* Updated Tcl/Tk 8.6 core
* Updated packages
** BWidget 1.9.6
** http 2.8.4
** Img 1.4.1
** logger 0.9.3
** msgcat 1.5.0
** pngtcl 1.4.12
** sqlite 3.7.14
** Tablelist 5.6
** TLS 1.6.3
** treectrl 2.4.1
** zlibtcl 1.2.7

Download ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0b8 now:
http://www.activestate.com/activetcl

For access to more packages, use the included [teacup] application.

=== Getting Started ===

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- Windows (x86 or x64)
- Mac OS X (x86 or x86_64)
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http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/enterprise/

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http://bugs.ActiveState.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActiveTcl&version=8.6.0.0b8

Tcl/Tk is maintained by the Tcl community, with the sources and bug
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Enjoy!

- The Tcl Team
ActiveState Software Inc.

[Julian H J Loaring]

Many thanks for the update but alas I am getting an error loading tdbc::sqlite3. I have tried a teacup update and to remove/reinstall tdbc::sqlite3 but I am still getting the error:

>tclsh
% package require tdbc::sqlite3
unknown method "-columns": must be -append, -clear or -set
% set errorInfo
unknown method "-columns": must be -append, -clear or -set
while executing
"next {*}$args"
(class "::oo::Slot" method "unknown" line 8)
invoked from within
"variable -columns -db -resultArray -results -sql -Cursor -RowCount"
(in definition script for class "::tdbc::sqlite3::resultset" line 11)
invoked from within
"::oo::class create ::tdbc::sqlite3::resultset {

superclass ::tdbc::resultset

# The variables of this class all have peculiar names. The reas..."
(file "C:/Tcl/lib/teapot/package/tcl/teapot/tcl8/8.6/tdbc/sqlite3-1.0b15.tm" line 387)
invoked from within
"source -encoding utf-8 C:/Tcl/lib/teapot/package/tcl/teapot/tcl8/8.6/tdbc/sqlite3-1.0b15.tm"
("package ifneeded tdbc::sqlite3 1.0b15" script)
invoked from within
"package require tdbc::sqlite3"

All help & guidance gratefully recevied

kind regards
Julian H J Loaring

[Julian H J Loaring]

Have raised a bug report: http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=95724

[Witek Mozga]

Could you please cut out the unnecessary quoted text instead of
pasting all of it?

--
Witek

[Julian H J Loaring]

On Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:40:42 PM UTC+1, Witek Mozga wrote:
> Could you please cut out th

sure ;)

[Donal K. Fellows]

On 04/10/2012 09:00, Julian H J Loaring wrote:
> Thanks for the update but alas I am now getting an error loading tdbc::sqlite3
> % set tcl_patchLevel
> 8.6b3

> % package require tdbc::sqlite3

> can't create object "::tdbc::sqlite3::connection": command already exists with that name

What exact version of tdbc::sqlite3 is that trying to load? (There was a
change to TclOO which affected anyone using variable or class names that
begin with a “-”; most people aren't impacted, but some of the TDBC code
did notice. Kevin Kenny fixed the issue a few months ago, but maybe the
updated driver hasn't been distributed yet...)

Donal.

[Julian H J Loaring]

> What exact version of tdbc::sqlite3 is that trying to load? (There was a
>
> change to TclOO which affected anyone using variable or class names that
>
> begin with a “-”; most people aren't impacted, but some of the TDBC code
>
> did notice. Kevin Kenny fixed the issue a few months ago, but maybe the
>
> updated driver hasn't been distributed yet...)
>
>
>
> Donal.

I downloaded a fresh teapot to make sure I was getting the latest and it pulled in C:/Tcl/lib/teapot/package/tcl/teapot/tcl8/8.6/tdbc/sqlite3-1.0b15.tm

This has lots of variables with a leading dash and deliberately so according to the comment:

# The variables of this class all have peculiar names. The reason is
# that the RunQuery method needs to execute with an activation record
# that has no local variables whose names could conflict with names
# in the SQL query. We start the variable names with hyphens because
# they can't be bind variables.

[Julian H J Loaring]

Donal

Your suspicions were well founded! I just had a look at the fossil repo at
http://tdbc.tcl.tk/index.cgi/artifact/391da602c7a41db3b3da23c3b3c5b14e2c0ec80a
and this has a b17 version. I created a .tm for this and it loads fine.

On first bluh my application seems to be working fine now


As ever, many thanks for pointing me in the right direction and four your great support to the Tcl community