This evening I updated the primary Unicon source distribution file uni.zip
on the Unicon website, and put up the long-awaited GCC-based Windows Unicon
binary distribution update. Please send me your portability tweaks,
configuration fixes, and problem reports. I would expect some updates to
these files in the next few days, as issues are ironed out, so if you are
busy, feel free to wait a few days to grab these distributions. :-)
>From this past June's uni.zip, this distribution will show a number of
changes, which some of you have been following in CVS. In particular, we
have made speed improvements and reduced memory leaks in the database
facilities, which we are still refining. We have also improved the
execution monitoring facilities, the GUI library, and many smaller items.
At this date, the Unicon group mailing list consists of 72 people. I intend
to work on growing our community, and hope some of you will help. Promotion
will make more sense when Unicon gets out of beta test, for which the
current objectives are:
* incorporate Robert Parlett's additions to the GUI,
* standard test suites to validate Unicon's many features, and
* the database facilities must become so stable that they do not crash
on long-running monster applications.
These are modest goals, on which we have made progress but are not finished.
For example, the database facilities were high quality to begin with and
have worked quite well for practical purposes for years; now we are in the
process of bulletproofing them.
Several post-beta future language features and tools are also already in
the works by various groups, which will make for interesting times ahead.
If you are using Unicon, we need your experience reports and comments
with permission to pass them on! I will start a section on the web site
to post these (with names, but not e-mail addresses). It takes some extra
time to tell folks what you are up to, but it is essential so we can justify
our efforts to university administrations and funding agencies.
Cheers,
Clint [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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