[Xotcl] Announcement: XOTcl 1.6.0 available

[Gustaf Neumann]

Dear XOTcl Community,

XOTcl 1.6.1 is available. This release provides in short:
 - improved orthogonality for introspection,
 - improvements in the serializer
 - some minor fixes

Starting with XOTcl 1.6.0, release packages for XOTcl
are available  for Debian GNU/Linux. XOTcl is included
in upcoming Ubuntu releases, starting with Ubuntu 8.10
"Interpid Ibex" (see also: http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download.html).
Many thanks to Stefan Sobernig for his help!

See below for more details concerning the release
Best regards

-gustaf neumann


Announcing XOTcl 1.6.1
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We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.6.1

Major changes relative to 1.6.0 are:

   * Extended and generalized "info" method

   * Generalized serializing package: when deserializing code, now
     consistenly no constructors are called. In previous versions,
     constuctors were called on slots; due to the point above, this is
     not needed; background: the previous solution had problems in
     aolserver ns_eval, when a slot-constructor called db-functions,
     since during ns_eval, the database handles are non-functional)

   * Fixes for potential crashes when methods were called
     with invalid arguments

   * Improved documentation

   * Extended regression tests

 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