[Gambas-user] Pre-release of Gambas 3.5.1

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 09/11/2013 12:02, Kende Krisztián a écrit :
> 2013-11-09 02:19 keltezéssel, Benoît Minisini írta:
>> 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,
>>
>
> Hm, new features... So, it's not backward compatible with 3.5.0 runtime?
>

Yes. But that's not a big deal:

- Gambas 3.5.0 should not be used because of packager issues.

- OPEN STRING and the memory stream changes are actually language fixes.

- Enum.Stopped was needed to fix the JSON.Decode() method.

-- 
Benoît Minisini