[Xotcl] XOTcl and Tcl 8.6

[Gustaf Neumann]

Dear Koen,

thanks for the feedback. TclObjInterpProcCore() came in tcl 8.5 and allows
a much faster dispatch for scripted methods. Unfortunately, it is gone 
in 8.6
(replaced by a NRE variant, which would require many more changes).
i built a version of 1.6.5 not requireing TclObjInterpProcCore() and
uses the slower 1.6.1-like method dispatch when compiled against 8.6.
This version will eventually get released as 1.6.6

all the best
-gustaf neumann

Am 09.02.10 17:37, schrieb Koen Danckaert:
> Dear Gustaf,
>
> I have seen the slides on XOTcl 2.0 and am looking forward to it :-)
> However, in the meantime, I wanted to get an existing version of XOTcl 
> working with Tcl 8.6.
>
> XOTcl 1.6.5 does not work with Tcl 8.6 because it requires a function 
> which is not present in Tcl8.6 anymore: TclObjInterpProcCore().
>
> So I switched back to an earlier version of XOTcl (1.6.1), which 
> apparently does not require this function.
>
> I still had to apply some small modifications:
> - replacing interp->errorLine by Tcl_GetErrorLine(interp)
> - adding some "const" qualifications
> but finally managed to compile XOTcl 1.6.1 with Tcl8.6.
>
> If you're interested, I can send you the patch.
>
> Thanks for all the good work on XOTcl !
>
> Best regards,
> Koen Danckaert
>
>
> Gustaf Neumann wrote:
>> Dear Koen,
>>
>> we are busy working on xotcl 2.0, which works for tcl 8.5 and tcl 8.6
>> (we will most probably not be able to make 2.0 work with tcl 8.4;
>> the 8.4 support is still in the 2.0 code base, but getting it to work
>> with 8.4 would require a lot of work, so we will skip it).
>>
>> i am currently in the midst of reworking slots, which is the
>> last biggy before the release (which i hoped to get finished
>> by end of 2009)). There will be some more polishing on
>> the interfaces and the code, documentation is at an early
>> state, so end of q1 seems in reach for the release.
>>
>> xotcl 2.0 is quite different from xotcl 1.*, but there
>> is an xotcl 1.* layer available, which is highly backwards
>> compatible (i have tested it e.g. against xotcl-core and xowiki
>> inside openacs, about 46000 lines of code). in case, you have
>> not seen the slides an the xotcl 2.0 paper, drop me a note.
>>
>> if you have interest on getting access to the development version
>> of xotcl 2.0, i can give you access to the git repository.
>>
>> -gustaf neumann
>>
>> Am 08.02.10 18:17, schrieb Koen Danckaert:
>>> Dear XOTcl developers,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use XOTcl (1.6.5) with Tcl8.6.
>>>
>>> Apparently XOTcl does not compile with Tcl8.6, but on Linux, I can 
>>> get it to work by using a version compiled for Tcl8.5.4.
>>>
>>> However, this is not the case on Windows: loading XOTcl will make 
>>> Tcl8.6 crash there.
>>>
>>> I also tried to use the xotcl165.dll provided by Activestate in the 
>>> Tcl8.6b1 distribution. This seems to work with Tcl8.6b1 indeed, but 
>>> not with newer versions of Tcl fetched from CVS (which I need).
>>>
>>> Is it possible today to use XOTcl in a recent Tcl8.6 ?
>>> Or are there any plans to update XOTcl ?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Koen Danckaert
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>>
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