Dear XOTcl community,
XOTcl 1.1.0 is now available from www.xotcl.org! Below is the full announcement text!
best regards -gustaf neumann
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Announcing XOTcl 1.1.0 **********************
WHAT IS XOTCL?
XOTcl is an object-oriented extension of Tcl that was derived from OTcl. In short, XOTcl tries to provide a highly flexible, reflective, component-based, and object-oriented environment. It integrates language support for high level concepts which are not found in other languages, with reasonable performance. It prevails the Tcl programming style and the dynamic/introspective nature of the language, rather than introducing other language's styles and rigidness (such as C++) into Tcl.
CHANGES relative to 1.0.2 are:
- New functionality and improvements:
* Transitive instmixins (thanks to a suggestion of Neophytos Demetriou): The new version supports a tree of mixins (mixins of mixins); when a mixin-class X has instmixins Y registered, and X is registered as instmixin for a class C, the mixin classes Y are applied to C as well.
* Conditional mixins (thanks to a suggestion of Neophytos Demetriou): mixins and instmixins can have now guards similar to filters that define when they should be applied
* New composition strategy for (filter- and mixin-)guards: when a guard is defined more than once for the same interceptor the most specific guard is used, the others are overridden.
* Creation of sub-objects via parameter: XOTcl's parameter method supports now a switch named "-Class" which can be used to create and configure sub-objects (see tutorial for details)
* New predefined method: __unknown This method is called, whenever XOTcl references a class, which is not defined yet (e.g.: Class C -superclass UNKNOWNCLASS) This method is used for Zoran's wonderful ttrace package (for aolserver and tcl-Threads)
* Improved documentation: - extended tutorial (Meta-Classes, Tk, ...) - beautified tutorial (style files, distinction between literals and placeholders, ...) - fixed hundreds of typos
* some speed improvements
- fixes:
* New build system: - per default no shells are built - new configure switches eg. --with-xotclsh, -with-actiweb --with-all
* Fixes for https in connection with some versions of IE
* Fixed a few issues with purify and mt (many thanks to Zoran!)
* Fixes for proc-scoped variable in connections with mixins
* Fixed passing of error codes from constructors
* various small fixes and code cleanup - with newer versions of autoconf - various fixes for stubs - improved build under windows - starkit compliance (many thanks to MichaelL@frogware.com)
For more details, please consult the ChangeLog
MORE INFO General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components can be found at http://www.xotcl.org
Best regards,
Gustaf Neumann Uwe Zdun