Am 04.08.10 14:14, schrieb Kristoffer Lawson:
I think dropping it is a good decision. It'll be interesting to see what the next XOTcl is like.
How much complexity will the new version be adding? The beauty with XOTcl, especially the earlier versions, was that despite the power of it, it was quite simple (unlike C++). Much like Tcl itself: power, but simplicity. I would be concerned if that gets lost along the way.
the new object system as a much smaller interface (half the number of predefined methods) and the whole system is more orthogonal.
See e.g. the paper at and slides from the last tcl tk conference. http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/research/publications/b802.pdf http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/research/publications/b806.pdf
you can follow the development via git
git clone git://alice.wu-wien.ac.at/xotcl 2.0.0-develop cd 2.0.0-develop git branch 2.0.0-develop origin/2.0.0-develop git checkout 2.0.0-develop
all the best -gustaf neumann