ANN: eTcl 1.0.0 (stable)

[Eric Hassold]

ANNOUNCE: eTcl 1.0.0

I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of eTcl 1.0.0 for
Windows, linux-x86, linux-x86_64 (new), linux-arm, linux-mipsel,
linux-powerpc, Windows Mobile (2003, 2003SE, 5.0 and 6.0) pocketPC and
smartphones, and Mac OS X (Aqua) as universal binary (x86 and PPC).

This stable, official release complete a long serie of release
canditates, and has been made possible thanks to great feedback and
support from community.

WHERE TO GET
============

It is available from:

http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/index.html
http://www.evolane.com/

WHAT'S NEW
==========

Some extras features since previous announcement:
- Tcl/Tk 8.5.5, supported on all architectures including WinCE.
- New commands have been added to wce package (Windows Mobile
extension) to access GPS Intermediate driver (GPSID).
- Full version delivered with ready to use kits for tcllib (1.11.1),
tklib (0.4.1) and bwidgets (1.8.0)
- improved support for sources wrapping into standalone executable.

eTcl 1.0.0 also comes with up to date versions of several packages
(e.g. sqlite 3.6.6.2, treectrl 2.2.8, tkhtml3 CVS snapshots, ...). As
usual, it also includes fixed for several bugs. See changelog at:

http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/CHANGES.txt

WHAT IS IT
==========

eTcl is a "batteries-included", thread enabled Tcl/Tk runtime, available
as a single standalone executable for Linux (x86, x86_64, ARM, Mips and
PowerPC), Win32 (Win98 to Vista), Windows Mobile (2003 or better) and
MacOSX (universal binary). On all architectures, executable has no
external dependencies, and requires no installation except copying
executable wherever you want.

Distributions for all architecture include a common set of core components:
- Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 (thread enabled)
- Pixane: script your image transformation, support for reading and
writing several popular image formats (PNG, JPEG), support for TrueType
fonts, several truetype builtin fonts (serif, sansserif and monotype)
- Sqlite (3.6.6.2): A SQL server in your hand.
- Zlib: native deflate/inflate support
- Zipfs: easily Mount your ZIP files into Tcl Virtual Filesystem
- TclThread (2.6.5): run multi-threaded applications
- TclXML (3.1): XML parsing, using expat parser
- tDOM (0.8.2): Another XML parser, sharing expat library with TclXML
- Memchan: memory channels (memchan, fifo, fifo2, ...)
- Tls (1.6): support for SSLv2/SSLv3/Tls1.0
- TkTable (2.9)
- TkTreeCtrl (2.2.8)
- Tkhtml3 (latest CVS snapshot)
- Scene: 3D widget based on OpenGL (except on WinCE)
- Odyce: embedded C compiler

All comments, bug reporting and feedbacks are much appreciated. You may
send them to <etcl at evlane.com>. To be informed of releases, or
contribute to future improvements, consider:

- sharing your experience with eTcl on wiki:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/eTcl
http://wiki.tcl.tk/15260
http://wiki.tcl.tk/19642
or french wiki:
http://wfr.tcl.tk/1078
- subscribing to eTcl and Pixane projects on freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/etcl/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pixane/
- joining (new) eTcl group on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71473125424

Regards,

Eric Hassold
Evolane - http://www.evolane.com/

[suchenwi]

On 22 Dez., 13:49, Eric Hassold <hass...@evolane.com> wrote:
> ANNOUNCE: eTcl 1.0.0
>
> I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of eTcl 1.0.0 for
> Windows, linux-x86, linux-x86_64 (new), linux-arm, linux-mipsel,
> linux-powerpc, Windows Mobile (2003, 2003SE, 5.0 and 6.0) pocketPC and
> smartphones, and Mac OS X (Aqua) as universal binary (x86 and PPC).

Nice - just in time before Christmas! I downloaded it to my phone, and
will play around with it over the holidays... Thanks!