ANNOUNCE: XOTcl 1.5.1 available
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XOTcl 1.5.1 is available. This is mostly a bugfix release, but contains
as well an improved API for developing XOTcl-methods in C. Many thanks
to the community for the input and the reports. Especially many thanks
to Scott Gargash for the discussion and suggestions for improving the
C-level API.
-gustaf neumann
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Announcing XOTcl 1.5.1
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Hi everybody. We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl
1.5.1.
Major changes relative to 1.4.0 are:
* Improved Functionality
+ Improved interface to develop XOTcl methods in C
(Many thanks to Scott Gargash for the constructive
discussions
and suggestions).
New functions imported through the XOTcl's stub interface:
- XOTclNextCmd()
- XOTclCallMethodWithArgs
New constant XOTCL_NONLEAF_METHOD to allow C-implemented
methods to call next. This constant can be passed as 5th
argument to XOTclAddIMethod (or ...AddPMethod). The
following is a short example for defining and registering
a C-implemented constructor "init" to a class.
static int MyClassInit( ClientData cdata,
Tcl_Interp *interp,
int objc, Tcl_Obj *CONST objv[] ) {
int rc;
/*** before next ***/
rc = XOTclNextObjCmd(cdata, interp, objc,objv);
/*** after next ***/
return rc;
}
...
MyClass = XOTclGetClass(interp, "MyClass" );
XOTclAddIMethod(interp, MyClass, "init", MyClassInit,
XOTCL_NONLEAF_METHOD, 0 );
* Improved code quality:
+ fixed a bug with the backward-compatible and deprecated
"setter" interface (many thanks to Manfred Stelzhammer for
reporting the bug)
+ fixed a bug in parsing nonpositional arguments, when
e.g. square brackets are used in type declarations for
parameters (Many thanks to Stefan Sobernig for reporting)
+ fixed autoname crash under Windows NT (Many thanks to Mark
Janssen for reporting and providing a patch)
+ fixed serializer to handle deeper stratification layers
+ simplification and speedup of dispatcher
+ Makefile.in improvements for genstubs
+ Changed "test -e" to "test -f" in Makefile.in, since the
standard test command in Solaris does not understand
"test -e" (Many thanks to Andreas Kupries for reporting)
+ improved 64-bit compatibility on POWER5+
For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and
documentation.
MORE INFO
General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components
can be found at http://www.xotcl.org
Best regards,
Gustaf Neumann
Uwe Zdun