Dear XOTcl Community,

XOTcl 1.6.1 is available. This release provides in short: - improved orthogonality for introspection, - improvements in the serializer - some minor fixes

Starting with XOTcl 1.6.0, release packages for XOTcl are available for Debian GNU/Linux. XOTcl is included in upcoming Ubuntu releases, starting with Ubuntu 8.10 "Interpid Ibex" (see also: http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download.html). Many thanks to Stefan Sobernig for his help!

See below for more details concerning the release Best regards

-gustaf neumann

Announcing XOTcl 1.6.1 *************************

We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.6.1

Major changes relative to 1.6.0 are:

* Extended and generalized "info" method

* Generalized serializing package: when deserializing code, now consistenly no constructors are called. In previous versions, constuctors were called on slots; due to the point above, this is not needed; background: the previous solution had problems in aolserver ns_eval, when a slot-constructor called db-functions, since during ns_eval, the database handles are non-functional)

* Fixes for potential crashes when methods were called with invalid arguments

* Improved documentation

* Extended regression tests

For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and documentation.

MORE INFO General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components can be found at http://www.xotcl.org