Fisheye: Tag b27afbdc54346aabea4439bb11b8c2e898c2afab refers to a dead (removed) revision in file `doc/Announce2.4.1'. Fisheye: No comparison available. Pass `N' to diff? Index: doc/Announce2.5.0 =================================================================== diff -u --- doc/Announce2.5.0 (revision 0) +++ doc/Announce2.5.0 (revision b27afbdc54346aabea4439bb11b8c2e898c2afab) @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Dear Community, + +We are pleased to announce the availability of the Next Scripting +Framework (NSF) 2.5.0. This release makes NSF, NX, and XOTcl support +Tcl 9 and its features. The release also marks the 25th anniversary of +XOTcl, the predecessor of NX and one of the parents of TclOO. In May +1999, the first paper on XOTcl was presented at the 5th USENIX +Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS '99): + +Gustaf Neumann & Uwe Zdun: Filters as a Language Support for Design +Patterns in Object-Oriented Scripting Languages, in: Proc. of +COOTS'99, San Diego, California, USA, May, 1999, URL: +https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/coots99/full_papers/neumann/neumann.pdf + +Further changes are mostly perfective improvements in terms of +bug fixes. See below for the details. + +Diff stats since 2.4.0: + + ... + +Major changes relative to 2.4.0 are: NSF now compiles and runs with +Tcl 9 as released. This way, NSF/NX/XOTcl can be used with the Tcl +8.5, Tcl 8.6, and Tcl 9 on Linux, Windows, and macOS. One can see the +results of the compilations and test runs on + + https://github.com/nm-wu/nsf/actions + https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mrcalvin/nsf-2ylk0/history + +Hint: As for Tcl 8.5, NSF is only tested with (unreleased) Tcl 8.5 +revisions taken from `core-8-5-branch` at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/. + +Selected changes worth mentioning: + +- Maintenance & bug fixes: + + * Tcl 9: ... + +- NSF: + + * ::nsf::proc now supports "-returns" + * ::nsf::parseargs now honours "required" properly + +- NX: + + * "info consts": ... + +- XOTcl: + + * ... + +- MongoDB: + + * New proc: ::mongo::oid::gettimestamp + +- Documentation: + + * ... + +The detailed changelog is available at +https://next-scripting.org/xowiki/download/file/ChangeLog-2.4.0-2.5.0.log + +The Next Scripting Framework 2.5.0 (containing NX 2.5.0 and XOTcl +2.5.0) can be obtained from https://next-scripting.org/. Please report +issues and wishes by opening a ticket at +https://sourceforge.net/p/next-scripting/tickets/. + +Best regards +- Gustaf Neumann +- Stefan Sobernig \ No newline at end of file