Saturday, 31 January 2015
Jim Tcl version 0.76
ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.76
Jim Tcl 0.76 has been released and is available from:
http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
Find out all about Jim Tcl at http://jim.tcl.tk/
CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.75
This release contains some bug fixes plus a number of additional features. A summary is below. See git for the full changelog.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Bugs fixed in version 0.76
file
- fix stat file size for large filesarray
- avoid crash on unset variableexec
, file` - set umask before mkstempfile copy
- use binary mode when reading and writing files (Windows)glob
- work when intermediate dirs are not readable, and other fixes- aio - fix conflict between onexception and writable
namespace
- restore namespace import supportalias
- don’t rely on internal list never shimmering- Fix various minor problems reported by coverity
- Fix
info nameofexecutable
aftercd
Features added in version 0.76
exec
, file - respect $TMPDIRaio
- optional argument addrvar for accept.string
- implementstring cat
(TIP #429)file
- add support forfile link
info
- add support forinfo source ?filename line?
- Better script validation (e.g. missing trailing brackets)
- Install tcltest compatibility package
Compatiblity
- Some invalid scripts will now throw an error rather than silently executing
glob
is more Tcl-compatible with respect to-directory
and-tails
, so may affect some scripts- The output of errorInfo has changed from
"Runtime Error: <file>:<line>: ..."
to"<file>:<line>: Error: ..."
Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)
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