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- Added configure flag " --enable-forward-compat86" to be able to build binaries of XOTcl with Tcl 8.5 that can be used as well under Tcl 8.6 - Bump version number of XOTcl to 1.6.9

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- some more cleanup of autoconf (more quoting, remove obsolete file, use recent install-sh) - try to stick closer to current tcl conventions

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- provided a minimal nsf based README file for people having just the source code distribution

- namespace changes: mostly due to marketing reasons, the naming of the top-level namespace changed from "xotcl2" to "next". reasons: xotcl is hard to pronounce for beginners, sounds like "exotic" (but who wants to program in an exotic language) has a certain stigma of strange namings (e.g. "instproc"), is seen as a precursor of tcloo, the top-level namespace ::xotcl2:: is not very nice either, the separation of framework and language is not clear.

We have now:

::next (the new object system, former ::xotcl2)

::next::core (framework, primitives)

::xotcl (former xotcl1)

- "::xotcl::use" no longer needed, use Tcl standard mechanisms instead

(e.g. "package req next"; "package req XOTcl", "namespace import ::next*")

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restructured directory to remove superfluous directory xotcl

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