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Recent user-visible changes to Tcl:
-RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.36 1998/12/04 01:04:15 stanton Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.37 1999/01/04 19:25:00 rjohnson Exp $
1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple
commands on a single command line.
@@ -3641,8 +3641,9 @@ problem. (RJ)
tcl_platform array on Windows platform. The existence of the debug
element of the tcl_platform array indicates that the particular Tcl
shell has been compiled with debug information. Using
-"info exists tcl_platform(debug)" a Tcl script can direct the interpreter
-to load debug versions of DLLs with the load command. (SKS)
+"info exists tcl_platform(debug)" a Tcl script can direct the
+interpreter to load debug versions of DLLs with the load
+command. (SKS)
10/20/98 (feature change) The Makefile and configure scripts have been
changed for IRIX to build n32 binaries instead of the old 32 abi
@@ -3650,31 +3651,42 @@ format. If you have extensions built with the o32 abi's you will need
to update them to n32 for them to work with Tcl. (RJ)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-10/23/98 (bug fix) tcl_findLibrary had a stray ] in one of the pathnames
-it searched for the initialization script. tclInitScript.h was incorrectly
-adding the parent of tcl_library to tcl_pkgPath. This logic was moved
-into init.tcl, and the initialization of auto_path was documented.
-Thanks to Donald Porter and Tom Silva for related patches. (BW)
+10/23/98 (bug fix) tcl_findLibrary had a stray ] in one of the
+pathnames it searched for the initialization script. tclInitScript.h
+was incorrectly adding the parent of tcl_library to tcl_pkgPath. This
+logic was moved into init.tcl, and the initialization of auto_path was
+documented. Thanks to Donald Porter and Tom Silva for related
+patches. (BW)
10/29/98 (bug fix) Fixed Tcl_NotifyChannel to use Tcl_Preserve instead
of Tcl_RegisterChannel so that 1) unregistered channels do not get
closed after their first fileevent, and 2) errors that occur during
-close in a fileevent script are actually reflected by the close command. (BW)
+close in a fileevent script are actually reflected by the close
+command. (BW)
10/30/98 (bug fix) Overhaul of pkg_mkIndex to deal with transitive
package requires and packages split among scripts and binary files.
Also fixed ommision of global for errorInfo in tcl_findLibrary. (BW)
-11/08/98 (bug fix) Fixed the resource command to always detect the case where a file
-is opened a second time with the same permissions. IM claims that this will
-always cause the same FileRef to be returned, but in MacOS 8.1+, this is no longer the
-case, so we have to test for this equality explicitly. (JI)
+11/08/98 (bug fix) Fixed the resource command to always detect the
+case where a file is opened a second time with the same permissions.
+IM claims that this will always cause the same FileRef to be returned,
+but in MacOS 8.1+, this is no longer the case, so we have to test for
+this equality explicitly. (JI)
-11/10/98 (feature change) When compiling with Metrowerk's MSL, use the exit function from
-MSL rather than ExitToShell. This allows MSL to clean up its temporary files. Thanks to
-Vince Darley for this improvement. (JI)
+11/10/98 (feature change) When compiling with Metrowerk's MSL, use the
+exit function from MSL rather than ExitToShell. This allows MSL to
+clean up its temporary files. Thanks to Vince Darley for this
+improvement. (JI)
------------------ Released 8.0.4, 11/20/98 -------------------------
+----------------- Released 8.0.4, 11/19/98 -----------------------
+
+11/20/98 (bug fix) Handle possible NULL return in TclGetStdFiles. (RJ)
+
+11/20/98 (bug fix) The dltests would not build on SGI. They reported
+that you could not mix n32 with 032 binaries. The configure script
+has been modified to get the EXTRA_CFLAGS from the tcl configure
+script. [Bug id: 840] (RJ)
12/3/98 (bug fix) Windows NT creates sockets so they are inheritable
by default. Fixed socket code so it turns off this bit right after