1Announcing XOTcl 1.5.4 2************************* 3 4Hi everybody. We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.5.4. 5Originally, this release was planned as a small bug fix release. However, 6the total size of the (unified) diff between 1.5.3 and 1.5.4 is more 7than 5000 lines, mostly due to the varRefom changes (see first 8item below). 9 10Major changes relative to 1.5.4 are: 11 12 * Improved code quality: 13 14 + provided compatibility with Tcl 8.5 15 (currently, this requires the verison of Tcl 8.5 16 from CVS head, including the changes for VarReform 17 (For details, see http://groups.google.at/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/bff391a7f1bd8f6c/3f214d088a28ed13?hl=de#3f214d088a28ed13) 18 19 + improved serializer 20 (handling var traces for instances variables) 21 22 + several small bug-fixes 23 (e.g. fixing empty variable names, error message 24 propagation for configure, fixing potential crashes, 25 when namespaces are added to objects during 26 <object> eval, etc.) 27 28 + improved portablility for more platforms 29 (more portable shell tests for e.g. FreeBSD) 30 31 + extended regression test 32 33 For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and 34 documentation. 35 36MORE INFO 37 General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components 38 can be found at http://www.xotcl.org 39 40 41Best regards, 42 43Gustaf Neumann 44Uwe Zdun 45 46 47