ANNOUNCE: The Simple Development Library version 1.0

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The Simple Development Library
A collection of commands and utilities for Tcl development
Version 1.0, 22 June 2005
http://simpledevlib.sourceforge.net
Juan C. Gil (mailto:jgil@xxxxxx)
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This is The Simple Development Library (SimpleDevLib), a
collection of commands and utilities aimed towards assisting
software development in Tcl, the great language designed by
John Ousterhout, and [incr Tcl], the popular object oriented
extension to Tcl.

SimpleDevLib provides essential elements for good software
engineering and/or medium to big projects development, such as
a framework for regression testing, homogeneous, easily
parseable, fully introspectable code organization, a type
system, a framework for regression testing and object
orientation.

SimpleDevLib is written in pure Tcl itself, so that no
compilation is needed to run it on Unix, Windows or Macintosh
environments.

INSTALL

Just unpack into one of the directories that Tcl searches
for packages and you are done; Tcl version 8.1 or later is
required (this release has been tested using Tcl versions
8.1.1, 8.2.3, 8.3.3 and 8.4.9, both in Unix and Windows;
contact the author should you want to use SimpleDevLib with
Tcl 8.0). The SimpleClass package requires [incr Tcl], so
that a version of this extension compatible with the Tcl one
being used is needed.

To test the installation, type "simpletest SimpleDevLib" in
Unix or "tclsh?? simpletest SimpleDevLib" in Windows (?? is
your Tcl version, such as 84); a total of 1052 test cases in
14 packages shall execute and pass (in Windows and Macintosh
one test from the SimpleFile package is skipped; should [incr
Tcl] be not available, 13 tests from the SimpleDeclare package
and the whole SimpleClass package are skipped).

For a thorough, but concise, introduction to The Simple
Development Library, the reader is referred to The Simple
Development Library white paper at
http://simpledevlib.sourceforge.net/SDLWhitePaper.html.

LICENSE

SimpleDevLib is distributed under the BSDLicense. In
essence, this license allows you to do whatever you want with
the software provided the copyright notices are left
untouched.

CONTACT INFORMATION

* For bug reports, comments, request for features or code
contributions please contact the author at
mailto:jgil@xxxxxx

* SimpleDevLib is hosted by SourceForge at
http://simpledevlib.sourceforge.net

* comp.lang.tcl is the Usenet group for Tcl and The Simple
Development Library discussion

* There is a page devoted to The Simple Development Library
in the Tcl Wikit http://wiki.tcl.tk at
http://wiki.tcl.tk/TheSimpleDevelopmentLibrary

Copyright (C) 1999-2005, Juan C. Gil (mailto:jgil@xxxxxx)

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