[Xotcl] Next Scripting Framework

[Gustaf Neumann]

Dear XOTcl community,

today, we presented the Next Scripting Framework (NSF) at the 8th Annual 
Tcl/Tk Conference at Manassas, Virginia. We are proud to announce also 
here the availability of nsf 2.0b2, available from the web-site below, 
that went as well public today. The release plan is to gather in the 
first round feedback from the inner community and to polish the website 
and documentation in the meantime. The full public release will come out 
without the beta-state and will be annouced to the wider public.

The distribution of the next scripting framework contains essentially
  - NSF, the low-level framework
  - XOTcl 2.0
  - NX (descendant of XOTcl)

While XOTcl 2.0 is primarily highly compatible with XOTcl 1.6, NX 
provides more support for programming the larger, such as stronger 
encapsulation, method protection, modular feature composition, etc. For 
more details, consult the slides referenced below. The website contains 
a  more detailed NX migration guide comparing XOTcl idioms with NX 
idoms, or an NX tutorial.

The Next Scripting Framework requires Tcl 8.5 or newer and is released 
under an MIT license. For users bound for the time being to Tcl 8.4 we 
will continue to release bug fixes for the XOTcl 1.6 series.

web-site: http://next-scripting.org/
slides: http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/research/publications/b885.pdf

Gustaf Neumann
Stefan Sobernig

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Univ.Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Institute of Information Systems and New Media
WU Vienna
Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA