Dear XOTcl community, I am proud to announce XOTcl 1.3.6.

Major changes relative to 1.3.5 are:

* Improved Functionality + new info subcommand: <object> info precedence

+ simplified meta class definitions: every class can be changed into a metaclass by adding an instmixin of Class (or one of its subclasses) to it. In order to define that every class should be a metaclass, one can use now Object instmixin Class instead of the rather complicated solution i posted on the xotcl mailing list not long ago.

* Improved code quality: + fixed possible crashes when - objects are called with class methods (e.g. due to instmixins) - when instmixins are defined recursively (e.g. Class instmixin Class) - objects are turned into classes by changing the class relationship + improved namespace resolution when mixin classes are defined in namespaces (::xotcl:: namespace is skipped, since a helper method that calles the primitive setting command is defined there) + fixed passing of error code from init methods (thanks to Fabrice Pardo for noting it) + returning PACKAGE_VERSION after a package require (e.g. 'package req XOTcl' returns now 1.3.6) + some code refactoring, fixed erroneous documentation of c code + improved documentation

More details can be found in the changelog on www.xotcl.org.

best regards -gustaf neumann