Dear XOTcl Community, XOTcl 1.6.3 is available. See below for more details. Best regards Gustaf Neumann Announcing XOTcl 1.6.3 ************************* We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.6.3 Major changes relative to 1.6.2 are: * Functional improvements: - simplified and generalized handling of namespaced instance variables, where namespaced associative arrays could conflict with global variables due to Tcl's default namespace resolution. Many thanks to Stefan Sobernig for this contribution! * Fixes: - Corrected deletion of meta-classes. Before, it was possible to create undestroyable objects via complex meta-class structures * Speed improvements: - Use of new interfaces in Tcl 8.5 (when compiled with Tcl 8.5) - simplified interfaces for various C functions - Speed improvement for method invocation: * With Tcl 8.5: 10-15 % * With Tcl 8.4: 5-10 % * Improve code quality: - some more code cleanup - factoring out common code - using const in more cases * Extended regression tests * Improved documentation For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and documentation. MORE INFO General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components can be found at http://www.xotcl.org