EuroTcl 2023

I went to the EuroTcl 2023 Conference at WU Vienna and had the honor to give a talk about: Jim and Tcl interoperability - Featuring thing o_o.

See the slides.

Some ideas and inspirations:

• retry Naviserver and OpenACS.
• give Tcl 9 a try.
• upgrade to Tcl 8.7 asap to get the improved scalable Tk.
• read Csaba Nemeth's docs about scaling.
• make a thing implementation in TclOO.
• Figure out a sensible distributed package supply chain.
• check out cookie support in new http package.
• make up a distributed package repository standard.

During preparation and postprocessing I:

• created the packages: slide and thtmlnwhich allow to present and print POSH-slides.
• created the package tpdoc for extracting docstring documentation from Tcl modules.
• improved the Console and tcl4jim significantly, also astra.
• improved the thing documentation
• played around with font scaling of the slides
• found bugs in
  • thing - fixed
  • Jim - all reported
  • HTML <pre> handling in
    • Emacs / auto-fill
    • Neditor/fckeditor 4
    • tdom: asHTML does not preserve formatting at all.
  • mime package.
• Figured that xsltproc can't work with HTML5 tags like <nav> 

ToDo

• Bug reports on tdom and Emacs
• Bug report on mime.tcl
• Fix mimedetach.
• Improve slide and thtmln so that they:
  • can play a lot more HTML tags
  • are real packages and documented
  • are refactored - w/o skip
  • possible don't need wkhtmltopdf and pdfunite for printing.
• check the difference between  catch {…} Result errorInfo and catch{…} Result; $::errorInfo
• check the status of ~ expansion
• Contact Gustav Neumann to check on Naviserver ressource consumption and OpenAcs as basic CMS and/or Django app, as well as about use case for OpenAcs as openid provider.
• Finalize thing o_o documentation with sensible examples. Not bank accounts.
• Improve tpdoc and use it extensively:
  • make specification for tpdoc source, especially for docstrings.
  • add extraction of global description.
  • allow for section documentation
• check if Wapp works with Jim
• learn zipkits