Dear Community,
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Next Scripting Framework 2.0b3 which can be obtained from http://next-scripting.org
Best regards - Gustaf Neumann - Stefan Sobernig
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Announcing NSF 2.0b3 *************************
Major changes relative to NSF 2.0b2 are:
* Additional Features: - object parameters: call method "assign" on slot objects, when it is provided
- include "-returns" in introspection for aliases and scripted methods. New subcommand "info method returns" for nx.
- better compatibility with XOTcl 1.*:
* invocation of objects via method interface follows per default the XOTcl 1.* conventions. In order to obtain the semantics of ensemble objects, the object properties "keepcallerself" and "perobjectdispatch" have to be used.
* better handling of XOTcl 1.* configure commands (starting with a "-") when list property is lost (Many thanks to Zoran Vasjljevic for the good example)
* use different version numbers in serializer to avoid mixups between XOTcl 1 and XOTcl 2 when both packages are installed
* Improved Code Quality: - improved performance * rewrite of alias handling (alias reform) * improved branch prediction * significant speedup for handling large numbers of subclasses (subclass reform), avoid repetitious computations * significant speedup on mass-destroy (e.g. on thread exit) - provide better protection for deletion/overwriting of base classes - fixed potential duplicates on diamond inheritance - fixed unknown handling for "-local" and "-system" dispatches - improved compatibility for windows compilations (c89, __WIN32__) - fixed potential crashes * during method caching * error messages * implicit deletions - follow Tcl convention on error messages (start always with lower case) - better handling of multiple errors in a single command. - return GMT dates in Httpd as RFCs require
* Improved documentation - fixed typos, improve wordings
* Extended regression tests
MORE INFO General and more detailed information about the Next Scripting Framework and its components can be found at http://next-scripting.org