Tcl Source Code

Recent user-visible changes to Tcl:

RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.1.2.26 1999/04/06 01:25:58 welch Exp $

1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple
commands on a single command line.

2. Semi-colon now available for grouping commands on a line.

3. For a command to span multiple lines, must now use backslash-return

      ::test::matchTests) that can be set on the Tcl command line via
      the -match option.
    - The test suite can now be run in any working directory.  When
      you run "make test", the working directory is nolonger switched
      to ../tests.
(hirschl)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

--------------- Released 8.1b2, March 16, 1999 ----------------------

3/18/99 (bug fix) Fixed missing/incorrect characters in shift-jis table
(stanton)

3/18/99 (feature change) The glob command ignores the
FS_CASE_IS_PRESERVED bit on file systesm and always returns
exactly what it gets from the system. (stanton)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

3/19/99 (new feature) Added support for --enable-64bit.  For now,
this is only supported on Solaris 7 64bit (SunOS 5.7) using the Sun
compiler (redman).

3/23/99 (bug fix) Fixed fileevents and gets on Windows consoles
so that non-blocking channels do not block on partial input lines.
(redman)

3/23/99 (bug fix) Added a new Tcl_ServiceModeHook interface.
This is used on Windows to avoid the various problems that people
have been seeing where the system hangs when tclsh is running
outside of the event loop. As part of this, renamed
TclpAlertNotifier back to Tcl_AlertNotifier since it is public.
(stanton)

3/23/99 (feature change) Test suite now uses "tcltest" namespace to
define the test procedure and other auxiliary procedures as well as
global variables.  The previously chosen "test" namespace was thought
to be too generic and likely to create conflits.
(hirschl)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

3/24/99 (bug fix) Make sockets thread safe on Windows.
(redman)

3/24/99 (bug fix) Fix cases where expr would incorrect return
a floating point value instead of an integer. (stanton)

3/25/99 (bug fix) Added ASCII to big5 and gb2312 encodings.
(stanton)

3/25/99 (feature change) Changed so aliases are invoked at current
scope in the target interpreter instead of at the global scope.  This
was an incompatibility introduced in 8.1 that is being removed.
(stanton)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous beta releases ***

3/26/99 (feature change) --nameble-shared is now the default and build
Tcl as a shared library; specify --disable-shared to build a static Tcl
library and shell.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

3/29/99 (bug fix)  Removed the stub functions and changed the stub
macros to just use the name without params. Pass &tclStubs into the
interp (don't use tclStubsPtr because of collisions with the stubs on
Solaris). (redman)

4/1/99 (bug fix) Fixed the Ultrix multiple symbol definition problem.
Now, even Tcl includes a copy of the Tcl stub library. (redman)

4/1/99 (bug fix) Internationalized the registry package.

4/1/99 (bug fix) Changed the implemenation of Tcl_ConditionWait and
Tcl_ConditionNotify on Windows.  The new algorithm eliminates a race
condition and was suggested by Jim Davidson. (welch)

4/2/99 (new apis)  Made various Unicode utility functions public.
Tcl_UtfToUniCharDString, Tcl_UniCharToUtfDString, Tcl_UniCharLen,
Tcl_UniCharNcmp, Tcl_UniCharIsAlnum, Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha,
Tcl_UniCharIsDigit, Tcl_UniCharIsLower, Tcl_UniCharIsSpace,
Tcl_UniCharIsUpper, Tcl_UniCharIsWordChar, Tcl_WinUtfToTChar,
Tcl_WinTCharToUtf (stanton)

4/2/99 (feature change) Add new DDE package and removed the Tk
send command from the Windows version.  Changed DDE-based send
code into "dde eval" command.  The DDE package can be loaded
into tclsh, not just wish.  Windows only. (redman)

4/5/99 (bug fix) Changed safe-tcl so that the encoding command
is an alias that masks out the "encoding system" subcommand.
(redman)