Version 12 of The "Clone Don Porter" Project

The "Clone Don Porter" Project aims to fund full-time resources to perform work under the guidance of a Tcl Core Team member.

Attributes

start time: 2018-05-06

months active: 0

currently funded: 0€

monthly funding requirement: 16000€

numbr of individual financial supporters: 0

number of organizational supporters: 0

Description

The goal of this project is to accomplish tasks that facilitate dgp's continued efforts to improve Tcl. The project will run for a minimum of 30 days and will continue as long as there is sufficient funding and available resources. The work queue will be curated directly or indirectly by dgp. Coordination and communication will occur primarily in the Tcl Chatroom.

Funding will be solicited from individuals and other entities with an interest in Tcl.

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Active

TIP 498 : Fix memory leaks

Completed

deduplicate code in string comparison functions: Also avoid generating the string representation of pure lists and dictionaries when comparing with the empty string.

Fix memory leak in epoll: Cleanup the eventfd trigger file info created during initialization.

Waiting

trace: Improve error handling and resolve other known issues.
array: Redesign machinery to support array for and array searches

: c.f. http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/e87bcf819f03cea4

Tk: Modify to use interface of TIP 445 , or demonstrate deficiencies in that TIP.
info variable introspection gap :

Proposed

TDBC::ODBC: Revise to support systems with 32-bit SQLWCHAR. See the androwish fork .
TDBC::sqlite: Reduce memory consumption for large result sets
TDBC::sqlite: Resolve known issues regarding duplicate column names in results
TDBC: Move looping constructs down into C.
Deduplicate code in string matching functions. In the same area see ticket Exponential complexity for bad patterns instead of linear .

Funding

Comments

SYStems 2018-05-07: Can we add a Tcl/Tk modern IDE to that list :)

ak I believe that one is a step to far and big.

SYStems let's do it then :)