1Dear XOTcl Community, 2 3XOTcl 1.6.2 is available. See below for more details. 4 5Best regards 6-gustaf neumann 7 8 9Announcing XOTcl 1.6.2 10************************* 11 12We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.6.2 13 14Major changes relative to 1.6.1 are: 15 16 * Functional extensions: 17 - handle nonposargs in method "copy" properly 18 19 - new command ::xotcl::finalize 20 (for forcing cleanup and destuctor execution at a time in 21 a multi-threaded environment, where it is still safe to execute 22 all Tcl commands) 23 24 * Extended and generalized "info" method 25 26 - Added "<class> mixinof -closure ?pattern?" 27 Query the objects for which <class> is used as a per-object-mixin 28 (directly or indirectly) 29 30 * Fixes for potential crashes 31 32 - Implemented proper downgrading of Classes to Objects (handle 33 cases, where something was created first as an object and is 34 reclassed/recreated later as a class) and vice versa 35 36 - Reset mixin order for per-object mixins, when the superclass of 37 a class is deleted, which is used as per-object mixin 38 39 40 * Improved documentation 41 42 * Extended regression tests 43 44 * Some code cleanup 45 46 47 48 For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and 49 documentation. 50 51MORE INFO 52 General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components 53 can be found at http://www.xotcl.org 54 55