EiffelStudio

This is the first beta release of EiffelStudio 6.8. This brings support for SCOOP (Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming) for Windows and Linux platforms; support for other platforms will follow. The current implementation is only for frozen and melted code; finalization support will come soon. Various refresh and resizing issues have been fixed in EiffelVision for Windows. Graphical libraries have been improved to accept IMMUTABLE_STRING_XX as input without having to perform a conversion. Support has been added for OpenBSD on 64-bit platforms. Various compiler bugs were fixed.

The highlights of this release are Unicode support at the class text level, i.e. one can write a Unicode manifest string or a Unicode comment, support for GCC as a backend C compiler on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and bugfixes in the area of qualified anchored types, incrementality, once per object.

This is the release candidate of EiffelStudio 6.7. It solves some incrementality issues when using the testing facilities. Some display issues with the new across construct were solved. An encoding issue in the Mac version was fixed that prevented the proper display of C compilation.

This is the beta release of the forthcoming 6.7 release. Many incrementality bugs have been fixed. Some issues were fixed with the new Eiffel tracing mechanism related to the GC, because variables were not always protected. Support for Unicode was improved, especially for saving files.

The first implementation of the WEAK_REFERENCE class is now available only for classic mode. Support of type checking of separate entities for SCOOP was added, although there is not yet support for code generation. An optimization of {SPECIAL}.fill_with and {SPECIAL}.force was implemented, making those calls much faster. On the Windows platform, gcc version 4.4.5 is now used on both 32 and 64-bit systems. Some incrementality, Unicode parsing, once per objects, and various other bugs have been fixed.