[Xotcl] Annonce: XOTcl 0.85 released - compatible with XOTcl 2.0

Artur Trzewik mail at xdobry.de
Sat Feb 11 22:28:23 CET 2012


Hi XOTcl Friends!

The new release of XOTclIDE 0.85 is ready on
http://www.xdobry.de/xotclIDE

Changes:
1. Compatible with XOTclI 2.0 (nxf based XOTcl). Many thanks to Gustaf 
Neumann for patches.
Indeed XOTcl 2.0 seems to be the most backward compatible version ever 
of XOTcl. I was quite surprised that my many thousand of XOTcl code runs
without problems with XOTcl 2.0. So version difference 1.6 to 2.0 seems 
to be most internal nature.

But there is small change in XOTcl 2.0 that make problem with old 
XOTclIDE 0.84.
The method names can not start with : but it was used in @ Object to 
store meta information for IDE.

If you have all XOTclIDE components, you will need to load and write all 
components with XOTclIDE 0.85 (if you use file system components) and 
XOTcl 1.6
and then you can use them with XOTclIDE 0.85 and XOTcl 2.0.

All just remove the colons from meta descriptions

For example
@ ::IDE::Browser idemeta component IDEBaseGUI

to

@ IDE::Browser idemeta component IDEBaseGUI

2) Improvements in tcl syntax checker. Now it knows new tcl 8.5 commands 
(for example dict)

3) New namespace browser

4) New interpreter browser. You can create slave interperter run and 
inspect the state of interpreter

5) Modified wiki reaper. It can list wiki pages with tcl code, run it in 
slave interpreter and inspect it.

6) Code completion knowns also tcl commands options.

7) Many other improvements and bug fixes.

Artur




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