The Jim Interpreter

Sunday, 04 September 2016

Jim Tcl version 0.77

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.77

Jim Tcl 0.77 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 0.76

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 0.77

• exec - better handline of pipeline abnormal termination
• exec - fix append redirection on Windows
• regsub - fix substitution with trailing backslash
• expr - improved mathfunc handling and pow/**
• chained tailcalls were not always being run

Features added in version 0.77

• Add support for configure --docdir=...
• Add support for jimsh --help
• Add support for booleans in string is and expressions (true, false, on, off, yes, no)
• aio - add sync, openssl bindings, posix locking
• expr - add support for atan2, hypot and fmod
• regexp, regsub:
  • Add support for \D, \W and \S
  • Add partial support for \A, \Z
  • Add support for all character classes: [[::blank:]], [[::xdigit::]], etc.
• Update included sqlite3 to v3.14.1
• Add $tcl_platform(engine)
• Add basic (optional) zlib support
• Add interp child interprester support
• oo:
  • Add support for constructor, runs on new object creation
  • Add support for unknown method
• Add Travis and AppVeyor continuous integration support
• Use pkg-config in configure to find packages if possibe

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)