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diff --git a/contrib/tcl/changes b/contrib/tcl/changes index 9390e86..c54526b 100644 --- a/contrib/tcl/changes +++ b/contrib/tcl/changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -SCCS: @(#) changes 1.251 97/06/30 08:48:28 +SCCS: @(#) changes 1.293 97/08/13 17:50:35 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -2494,11 +2494,9 @@ following new library commands are provided: policy mechanism. tcl_safeDeleteInterp -- deletes a slave and deinitializes the policy mechanism. - tcl_safeAutoPath -- manages per slave path for package - finding and auto-loading. - tcl_safePolicyPath -- manages global search path for finding - security policies. Added a new file to the library, safeinit.tcl, to hold implementation. (JL) +On 7/9/97, removed the policy loading mechanism from the Safe Base. Left +only the Safe Base aliases dealing with auto-loading and source. (JL) 12/6/96 (new feature) Implemented Tcl_Finalize, an API that should be called by a process when it is done using Tcl. This API runs all the exit @@ -2934,8 +2932,8 @@ and to get the vector back later. (JL) leave an object result instead of a string result. (JL) 5/14/97 (feature change) Improved the handling of the interpreter result. -This is still either an object or a string, but the two values are now -kept consistent unless some C code has set interp->result directly. See +This is still either an object or a string, but the two values are now kept +consistent unless some C code reads or writes interp->result directly. See the SetResult man page for details. Removed the Tcl_ResetObjResult procedure. (BL) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with Tcl 8.0a2 *** @@ -3094,3 +3092,184 @@ Tcl_ExprObj. (BL) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with Tcl 8.0b1, but not with Tcl 7.6 *** ----------------- Released 8.0b2, 6/30/97 ----------------------- + +7/1/97 (new feature) TCL_BUILD_SHARED flag set in tclConfig.sh +when Tcl has been built with --enable-shared. A new tclLibObjs +make target, echoing the list of the .o's needed to build a tcl +library, is now provided. (DL) + +7/1/97 (feature change) compat/getcwd.c removed and changed the +only place where getcwd is used so a new USEGETWD flag selects +the use of the replacement "getwd". Adding this flag is recommended +for Solaris (because getcwd on solaris uses a pipe to pwd(1)!).(DL) + +7/7/97 (feature change) The split command now supports binary data (i.e., +null characters in strings). (BL) + +7/7/97 (bug fix) string first returned the wrong result if the first +argument string was empty. (BL) + +7/8/97 (bug fix) Fixed core dump in fcopy that could occur when a command +callback was supplied and an error or eof condition caused no background +activity. A refcount bug triggered a panic in Tcl_ListObjAppendElement. (BW) + +7/8/97 (bug fix) Relaxed the pattern matching on http_get so you do not +need a trailing path component. You can now get away with just +http_get sunscript.sun.com (BW) + +7/9/97 (bug fix) Creating anonymous interpreters no longer smashes existing +commands with names similar to the generated name. Previously creating an +anonymous interpreter could smash an existing command, now it skips until +it finds a command name that isn't being used. (JL) + +7/9/97 (feature change) Removed the policy management mechanism from the +Safe Base; left the aliases to source and load modules, and to do a limited +form of the "file" command. See entry of 11/15/96. (JL) + +7/9/97 (bug fixes) Fixed various compilation-related bugs: + - Line numbers in errorInfo now are the same as those in Tcl7.6 unless +there are compilation errors. Compilation error messages now include the +entire command in error. + - Trailing ::s after namespace names weren't being ignored. + - Could not refer to an namespace variable with an empty name using a +name of the form "n::". (BL) + +7/9/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug in Tcl_Export that prevented you from exporting +from other than the current namespace. (BL) + +7/9/97 (bug fix) env.test was removing env var needed for proper finding +of libraries in child process. (DL) + +7/10/97 (bug fixes/new feature) Cleanup in Tcl_MakeSafe. Less information +is leaked to safe interps. Error message fixes for interp sub commands. +Likewise changes in safealias.tcl; tcl_safeCreateInterp can now be called +without argument to generate the slave name (like in interp create). (DL) + +7/10/97 (bug fixes) Bytecode compiler now generates more detailed +command location information: subcommands as well as commands now have +location information. This means command trace procedures now get the +correct source string for each command in their command parameter. (BL) + +7/22/97 (bug fixes) Performance improvement in Safe interpreters +handling. Added new mask value to (tclInt.h) Interp.flags record. (DL) + +7/22/97 (bug fix) Fixed panic in 'interp target {} foo'. This bug +was present since Tcl 7.6. (JL) + +7/22/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug in compilation of procedures in namespaces: the +procedure's namespace must be used to look up compile procedures, not the +current namespace. (BL) + +7/22/97 (bug fix) Use of the -channel option of http_get was not setting +the end of line translations mode on the channel, so copying binary data +with the -channel option was corrupting the result on non-unix platforms. (BW) + +7/22/97 (bug fixes) file commands and ~user (seg fault and other +improper returns). (DL) + +7/23/97 (feature change) Reenabled "vwait" in Safe Base. (JL) + +7/23/97 (bug fixes) Fixed two bugs involving read traces on array variables +in procedures: trace procedures were sometimes not called, and reading +nonexistant array elements didn't create undefined element variables that +could later be defined by trace procedures. (BL) + +7/24/97 (bug fix) Windows memory allocation performance was +superlinear in some cases. Made the Mac allocator generic and changed +both the Mac and Windows platforms to use the new allocator instead of +malloc and free. (SS) + +7/24/97 - 8/12/97 (bug fixes/change of features) Completely revamped safe +sourcing/loading (see safe.n) to hide pathnames, use virtual +paths tokens instead, improved security in several respects and made it +more tunable. Multi level interp loading can work too now. Package auto +loading now works in safe interps as long as the package directory is in +the auto_path (no deep crawling allowed in safe interps). (DL) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous alpha and beta releases *** + +7/24/97 (bug fixes) Made Tcl_SetVar* and Tcl_NewString* treat a NULL value +as an empty string. (This fixes hairy crash case where you would crash +because load command for other interps assumed presence of +errorInfo...). (DL) + +7/28/97 (bug fix) Fixed pkg_mkIndex to understand namespaces. It will +use the export list of a namespace and create auto_index entries for +all export commands. Those names are in their fully qualified form in the +auto_index. Therefore, I tweaked unknown to try both $cmd and ::$cmd. +Also fixed pkg_mkIndex so you can have "package require" commands inside +your packages. These commands are ignored, which is mostly ok except +when you must load another package before loading yours because of +linking dependencies. (BW) + +7/28/97 (bug fix) A variable created by the variable command now persists +until the namespace is destroyed or the variable is unset. This is true even +if the variable has not been initialized; these variables used to be +destroyed if an error occurred when accessing them. In addition, the "info +vars" command lists uninitialized namespace variables, while the "info +exists" command returns 0 for them. (BL) + +7/29/97 (feature change) Changed the http package to use the ::http +namespace. http_get renamed to http::geturl, http_config renamed to +http::config, http_formatQuery renamed to http::formatQuery. +It now provides the 2.0 version of the package. +The 1.0 version is still available with the old names. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with Tcl 8.0b2 but not with Tcl 7.6 *** + +7/29/97 (bug fix, new feature) Tcl_Main now uses Tcl objects internally to +preserve NULLs in commands and command output. Added new API procedure +Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj that resembles Tcl_RecordAndEval but takes an object +containing a command. (BL) + +7/30/97 (bug fix) Tcl freed strings in the environ array even if it +did not allocate them. (SS) + +7/30/97 (bug fix) If a procedure is renamed into a different namespace, it +now executes in the context of that namespace. (BL) + +7/30/97 (bug fix) Prevent renaming of commands into and from namespaces as +part of hiding them. (JL) + +7/31/97 (feature change) Moved the history command from C to tcl. +This uses the ::history namespace. The "words" and "substitute" options +are no longer supported. In addition, the "keep" option without a value +returns the current keep limit. There is a new "clear" option. +The unknown command now supports !! again. (BW) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILTY *** + +7/30/97 (bug fix) Made sure that a slave can not fool the master into +hiding the wrong command. Made sure we don't crash in hiding + namespaces +issues. (DL) + +8/4/97 (bug fix) Concat, eval, uplevel, and similar commands were +incorrectly trimming trailing space characters from their arguments +even when the space characters were preceded by a backslash. (JO) + +8/4/97 (bug fix) Removed the hard link between bgerror and tkerror. +Only bgerror is supported in tcl core. Tk will still look for a +tkerror but using regular tcl code for that feature. (DL) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILTY with code relying on the hard link *** + +8/6/97 (bug fix) Reduced size required for compiled bytecodes by using a +more compact encoding for the command pc-to-source map. (BL) + +8/6/97 (new feature) Added support for additional compilation and execution +statistics when Tcl is compiled with the TCL_COMPILE_STATS flag. (BL) + +8/7/97 (bug fix) Expressions not in {}s that have a comparison operator as +the topmost operator must be compiled out-of-line (call the expr cmd at +runtime) to properly support expr's two-level substitution semantics. An +example is "set a 2; set b {$a}; puts [expr $b == 2]". (BL) + +8/11/97 (bug fix) The catch command would sometimes crash if a variable name +was given and the bytecode evaluation stack was grown when executing the +argument script. (BL) + +8/12/97 (feature change) Reinstated the variable tcl_precision to control +the number of digits used when floating-point values are converted to +strings, with default of 12 digits. However, had to make tcl_precision +shared among all interpreters (except that safe interpreters can't +modify it). This makes the Tcl 8.0 behavior almost identical to 7.6 +except that the default precision is 12 instead of 6. (JO) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +----------------- Released 8.0, 8/13/97 ----------------------- |
