The Jim Interpreter

Thursday, 06 October 2011

Jim Tcl version 0.72

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.72

Jim Tcl 0.72 has been released and is available from:

http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.71

This release incorporates bug fixes and many new features.

Bugs fixed in version 0.72

• Improvements to configure (autosetup)
• Fix memory overwrite in built-in regexp
• [regexp], [regsub] could leak objects in some circumstances
• Fix [file join] in some cases
• [info nameofexecutable] now always returns an absolute path
• [catch] works correctly for platforms without long long
• [dict unset] no longer gives an error on missing last key

Features added in version 0.72

• [proc] now accepts optional parameters and “args” in any position
• Much improved support for mingw32 including 64-bit mingw
  • tcl_platform(platform) is set to “windows”
  • [file dirname] handles leading drive (e.g. c:/)
  • [pwd] returns a path containing only forward slashes
  • [glob] now works correctly
  • [exec] is now fully implement on mingw32
  • Command line editing now works in the win32 console
  • New tcl_platform(pathSeparator)
• Builtin regexp is more efficient. Patterns are only compiled once.
• Add rand(), srand() and pow() math functions
• [file delete] now supports the -force option
• [fconfigure -translation] is now accepted and ignored for Tcl compatibility
• Improved diagnostics when sourcing a script with missing/mismatches brackets, quotes, etc.
• Jim Tcl now builds on Haiku (BeOS clone) and Solaris
• Build now works with BSD make
• [file mtime] can now set the file time
• New [aio listen] to set the size of the listen queue on server sockets
• Jim Tcl Manual is better formatted, commands are hyperlinked and various corrections have been made
• The oo, tree, binary and pack extensions are now documented
• New metakit extension
• The SDL extension once again builds and runs

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)