- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Cost 2.2 released
- From: jenglish@flightlab.com (Joe English)
- Date: 28 Jun 1999 03:55:52 -0700
- Followup-To: comp.lang.tcl
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce
- Organization: Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc.
28 June 1999:
I am pleased to annouce the long-overdue release
of Cost version 2.2. Details at:
<URL: http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/cost/index.html >
The software itself is at:
<URL: ftp://ftp.crl.com:/users/je/jenglish/cost.tar.gz >
Cost is a structure-controlled SGML application programming tool.
It is implemented as a Tcl extension, and works in conjunction
with James Clark's nsgmls and/or sgmls parsers. Cost is free software.
New in this release:
+ Should compile and install out-of-the-box on
most Unix platforms, with any Tcl release from 7.5
through 8.1.1 (courtesy autoconf). I'm still working
on Windows support...
+ Can load more than one document at a time, and switch
between them with the new 'selectDocument' and 'withDocument'
commands. 'setstream' and 'savestream' are provided as aliases
so this release should be compatible with Boris Tobotras' patches.
+ Allows comments at certain places in specifications; this should
also be compatible with Boris' version.
+ Preliminary support for XML (courtesy expat by James Clark).
Note: XML support is largely untested and has a few
known deficiencies (and probably several unknown one!)
I'd appreciate any feedback/bug reports.
+ Released under a Tcl-style license instead of the "Artistic"
license. (This is closer to my idea of free software,
and is several pages shorter.)
+ Cost can now be loaded as an extension into multiple Tcl
interpreters without conflicts (it's still not thread-safe,
however).
+ Many minor bugfixes, enhancements, and cleanups that
have accumulated over the last three years; see the CHANGELOG
for full details.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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