[Gambas-user] Pre-release of Gambas 3.5.1

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

Here you can download a non-official pre-release of Gambas 3.5.1:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gambas/files/gambas3/gambas3-3.5.1.tar.bz2/download

This releases mainly tries to fix the packager, but there are some bug 
fixes and new features related to the bug fixes too.

Here is a summary of the changes in the packager:

- The packager now uses the current Gambas major & minor version as 
minimum version for component dependencies.

- If a project uses gb.gui, then the packager will create two extra
meta-packages: one for Qt4 support, the other for GTK+ support.

The Qt4 meta-package depends on the application package and the gb.qt4 
binary package. The GTK+ meta-package depends on the application package 
and the gb.gtk binary package.

If OpenGL is used, the corresponding GUI opengl support packages 
(gb.qt4.opengl and gb.gtk.opengl) are added to the dependencies.

- The Ubuntu package naming convention is respected: i.e. there is the 
"ubuntu" string in the package name.

- The 'gb.desktop.gnome' component is now visible and explicitely 
checkable, so that it becomes an explicit dependency when creating a 
binary package with the packager.

- You can specify the package version number: this must be used when you 
make and deliver several different packages of the same software release.

Here are the new features:

- Enum.Stopped is a new property that returns if the current enumeration 
has been stopped.

- OPEN STRING is a new instruction that allows to use a string as a
stream. Writing to it appends the written data to the end of the string
at the moment.

- Closing a string stream returns the data written to the stream as a 
new string.

- WRITE behaves the same way as READ on a memory stream, when dealing 
with a string: it writes a null-terminated "C" string.

- OPEN MEMORY and OPEN PIPE are synonymous of the MEMORY and PIPE 
instructions alone.

- FileChooser now has support for uncompressing 'zip' files, provided 
that the 'zip' utility is installed on the system.

- If 'gb.gui' cannot load a GUI component, it tries the other one. If 
nothing works, it aborts.

- The default SDL font file is renamed as "_default.ttf" to prevent 
packaging conflicts.

- JSON.Decode() now takes an extra optional argument indicating that 
keys having a null value are taken into account inside objects.

- JSONCollection is a new class that represents a JSON object whose some 
keys are associated with a 'null' value.

Please test it and report! Let's make 3.5.1 a quiet release. :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini