[Gambas-devel] Gambas 2 roadmap

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]

El dom, 23-07-2006 a las 00:01 +0200, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:43, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> > Hi, Benoît and others..
> > Today gambas2 has been accepted into Debian experimental, what will
> > allow  more people to test it. In the roadmap of the next release for
> > Debian stable, the release team has purpose to do a general freeze of
> > the distribution on mid October. I would bet it won't happen before the
> > end of the year, but that's the prevision.
> >
> > By now, I don't dare including gambas2 in Debian because of the deep
> > changes we see from one version to another, what usually make necessary
> > recompile and changes in the source of the applications developed with
> > gambas2. But, I would like to include it before the freeze of Debian
> > testing, so gambas2 would be include in the next Debian release. I think
> > this is important for many people, not only Debian users, but also a
> > would bunch of Debian based distributions as Mepis, Knoppix, linspire,
> > Ubuntu, LinEx, etc.
> >
> > So, this is my question: Do you think the bytecode and the language will
> > suffer deep changes after October in the gambas2 development or the
> > changes that could affect to this part could be done before that date. I
> > don't mean the v 2.0 should be released before that date, only that the
> > applications (and future distro packages) made with gambas, let's say
> > 1.9.50, could be used with gambas 2.0 without recompiling or changing
> > its source code.
> >
> > I know this is a hard question, and I am not asking it to be done, just
> > want to know if that could be possible (and saying it would be
> > great ;-). In the meantime I could continue sending the packages to
> > Debian experimental
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> 
> Hi Jose,
> 
> At the moment, the only thing I want to add that will modify the bytecode is a 
> support for the ByRef VB keyword to help porting VB projects. As this is a 
> feature that was not thought from the beginning, it is a bit hard to add it 
> now. So it won't be immediate, but I can do that before October. Otherwise I 
> will do it after 2.0.
> 
> The other things that could modify the bytecode is something weird in the 
> language syntax that some users dislike.
> 
> I think we can decide that there won't be any bytecode change after October, 
> except if there is something very wrong in it.

Great, then I will continue uploading gambas2 to experimental until you
notice the release that will have the bytecode "frozen" for gambas 2.0.
Then I will upload it to unstable to begin the process that will take
gambas 2.0 to the next Debian stable release.

Thanks.