./lang/tcl, Tool Command Language, a dynamic language

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 8.6.14nb4, Package name: tcl-8.6.14nb4, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic
programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses, including
web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and
many more. Open source and business-friendly, Tcl is a mature yet
evolving language that is truly cross platform, easily deployed and
highly extensible.

Tcl/Tk resources:
Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl
Wiki: http://wiki.tcl.tk
Books:
* Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, 4th Edition
ISBN: 0-13-038560-3
* Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-321-33633-0


Required to run:
[databases/sqlite3]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: threads

Master sites:

Filesize: 11354.807 KB

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   2024-11-14 23:22:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2429)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump
   2024-11-01 13:55:19 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2426)
Log message:
*: revbump for icu downgrade
   2024-11-01 01:54:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2427)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump
   2024-05-29 18:35:19 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (1929) | Package updated
Log message:
revbump after icu and protobuf updates
   2024-04-09 03:34:16 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
tcl: add missing include for uintptr_t
   2024-04-06 07:37:48 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (26) | Package updated
Log message:
tcl, tk: updated to 8.6.14

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.13:
--------------------------------------

This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  Highlighted changes are noted below.  The changes file
at the root of the source tree contains a more complete list.  The Timelines
of all changes are online.

               http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/timeline
               http://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/timeline

   * [TIP 402] revise path normalization for x-platform UNC path support
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Harmonize Tk's parse of numbers (screen distance, etc) with Tcl
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Iconlist ignores options db for fg text color; affects dialogs
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Aqua: XPutImage() swaps red and blue channels
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * [encoding convertfrom] handling of incomplete code sequences
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Harmonize handling of ~ in paths across platforms.
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Fix menu clone binding misbehavior, menu-20.1[2-6].
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Improved performance of [exec] and [open |$cmd] on unix-lke
     systems, especially with large memory footprints.

   * Improve performance of large treeview destruction.

   * Improve performance of large image insertions into text.

   * Improve widget creation performance due to poor font caching.

   * Fix notebook tab appearances when placed on edge other than top.

   * Enable treeview display of partial final line.

   * Win: restore [exec %var%] that was dropped in 8.6.13.

   * Allow [chan create {} $cmd].  Enables simulation of server channels.

   * Allow return from [tk scaling] in safe interps.

   * Prevent navigation by word exposing clues to masked entry contents.

   * Fix crashes or hangs in...
      - [chan pop] with pending input
      - thread finalization of reflected channels
      - [label .l -bitmap floppy]
      - [set tcl_precision 15; expr 6.4623485355705287e-27]
      - [tk busy forget] and [tk busy hold]
      - channel read into "string" Tcl_Obj can BO, and perform poorly
      - KVO crash after destroying Aqua's first root toplevel
      - Test treeview-6ee162c3f9
      - Test tailcall-bug-784befb0ba
      - Tests menu-40.[12]

   * Repair memory leaks and errors
      - Eliminate undefined realloc() calls
      - Silence many warnings from -fsanitize=function
      - Flawed interfacing with XIM
      - Tcl_UtfToExternal writing to one-byte buffer
      - Tcl_UtfToUniChar() handling of 0xC1.
      - Tk_ConfigureValue could call wrong free() routine.
      - tests getuncichar-1.* in utf.test
      - ...and many more

   * No more support for 32-bit Cygwin

   * ::tcl_platform(osVersion) updated to report Windows 11

   * Accommodate macOS deprecation of sprintf()

   * Silence macOS 14 warnings about secure restorable state.

   * Code changes to support ASan use-after-return detection

   * Revise Tcl_MakeFileChannel() to better partner with pledge()

   * Prevent false [clock format] error reports on FreeBSD

   * Region clip & copy make better use of OS facilities.

   * Update handling of Apple FourCC creator codes.

   * Text selection omits first character, text-38.1

   * Windows: improved support of non-BMP pathnames

   * Fixed some Y2038 limitations

   * Fix photo color drawing on X11 32-bit visuals.

   * Fix <<MenuSelect>> regression on menus with -tearoff

   * Correct rounding of [nsFont pointSize].

   * zlib comment/filename error handling (zlib-8.19, zlib-8.2[012])

   * Prevent theme change attempts after Tk finalize.

   * Make dialogs robust against parent destruction.

   * Make [tk_chooseColor] robust against failed grab.

   * Fix menu parsing of @x,y indices.  menu-22.[6-9]

   * Fix inconsistent results from [font measure].

   * Fixed [clock scan|add] handling of abbreviated options

   * Avoid endless loops replacing [unknown] or [history].

   * Fix polluted error messages from [send -option].

   * PNG photo image decoder missed a 0xFF entry.

   * Fix failing winTime-2.1 on Windows

   * test string-2.20.1 failed on big endian platforms

   * Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
      - Itcl 4.2.4
      - sqlite3 3.44.2
      - Thread 2.8.9
      - TDBC* 1.1.7
      - tcltest 2.5.7
      - libtommath 1.2.1
      - zlib 1.3.1
      - Unicode 15.1
      - tzdata 2024a
   2023-11-08 14:21:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2377)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 74.1
   2023-06-26 17:51:56 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (23) | Package updated
Log message:
tcl: updated to 8.6.13

8.6.13
2021-12-08 (update) tcltest package to version 2.5.4
2022-01-13 (bug)[26f132] Crash when sizeof(int) < sizeof(void *) (Plan 9 port)
2022-01-19 (TIP 623)[e9a271] Tcl_GetRange index args < 0 (petasis,nijtmans)
2022-03-08 (bug) test string-5.22 (porter)
2022-03-11 (bug)[8a7ec8] fat binary compile on Mac M1 (davis, nijtmans)
2022-04-04 (bug)[e5ed1b] numeric IPv6 in URLs (nijtmans)
=> http 2.9.6
2022-04-26 (bug)[27520c] test error-9.6 (goth,sebres)
2022-05-04 (bug)[8eb64b] http package tolerant again invalid reply header
2022-05-11 (bug)[6898f9] http package failed detection of shiftjis charset
2022-05-25 (bug)[76ad7a] tests string-6.13[23] (mistachkin, nijtmans)
2022-06-20 (bug)[55bf73] Avoid connection reuse after response code 101.
=> http 2.9.8
2022-07-22 (bug)[713653] FP rounding exposed by x86 musl (rubicon,sebres)
2022-07-22 More portable notation of microseconds in verbose output (sebres)
=> tcltest 2.5.5
2022-07-27 (bug)[b3977d] Process CR-LF split across packets (nadkarni,sebres)
2022-07-29 (bug)[4eb3a1] crash due to undetected bytecode invalidity (nadkarni)
2022-08-23 (new)[371080] Portability to CHERI-enabled Morello processor (jrtc27)
2022-09-06 (bug)[55a02f] Fallback init env(HOME) from USERPROFILE (nadkarni)
2022-09-13 (bug)[1073da] crash writing invalid utf-8 (nijtmans)
2022-09-14 (new) Update to Unicode-15 (nijtmans)
2022-10-14 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2022e (nijtmans)
Update bundled zlib to 1.2.13
Update bundled libtommath
Many code fixes to avoid overflow or undefined behavior.