Tcl 8.0p2/Tk 8.0p2 Release Announcement
November 25, 1997

John Ousterhout
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com

This message is to announce the 8.0p2 releases of the Tcl scripting
language and the Tk toolkit.  These are patch releases.  They contain
only bug fixes for Tcl 8.0 and Tk 8.0; there are no feature changes.

Apologies for making these releases so soon after the p1 releases.
Unfortunately, we found a couple of bugs in the p1 releases that looked
serious enough to affect a lot of people, so we decided to do a quick
p2 release.  The p2 releases contains only 7 changes relative to the
p1 releases:

1. They fix a bug in linsert where it sometimes accidentally cleared out
   a shared argument list object.

2. They fix bugs that prevented autoloading from working inside namespaces.

3. They fix a bug on the Macintosh where the "package require" command
   caused menus to stop working.

4. They fix a bug on the Macintosh that caused transparent GIF images
   not to render properly in text widgets.

5. The Macintosh version has been updated so that it can be compiled with
   Code Warrior Pro 2.0.

6. The stack size on Windows was increased so that the Tcl recursion
   limit will be exceeded before the C stack size is exceeded.

7. A couple of small bugs were fixed in the clock tests.


Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl 8.0p2 and Tk 8.0p2 are currently available by public FTP from
ftp.sunlabs.com in the directory /pub/tcl.  The easiest way to
retrieve them is via the Web page for the 8.0 releases:
	http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/8.0.html

For additional information:
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See the Web site for SunScript, the Sun team dedicated to Tcl and Tk.
This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, and applications such as SpecTcl and the
Tcl plugin.  Visit the following URL:
    http://sunscript.sun.com