1Dear XOTcl Community, 2 3XOTcl 1.6.1 is available. This release provides in short: 4 - improved orthogonality for introspection, 5 - improvements in the serializer 6 - some minor fixes 7 8See below for more details. 9Best regards 10 11-gustaf neumann 12 13 14Announcing XOTcl 1.6.1 15************************* 16 17We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.6.1 18 19Major changes relative to 1.6.0 are: 20 21 * Extended and generalized "info" method 22 23 * Generalized serializing package: when deserializing code, now 24 consistenly no constructors are called. In previous versions, 25 constuctors were called on slots; due to the point above, this is 26 not needed; background: the previous solution had problems in 27 aolserver ns_eval, when a slot-constructor called db-functions, 28 since during ns_eval, the database handles are non-functional) 29 30 * Fixes for potential crashes when methods were called 31 with invalid arguments 32 33 * Improved documentation 34 35 * Extended regression tests 36 37 For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and 38 documentation. 39 40MORE INFO 41 General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components 42 can be found at http://www.xotcl.org 43 44