Environment Roadmap

A separate page gives the detailed roadmap for implementation of the full ISO/ECMA Eiffel standard.

Roadmap information for EiffelStudio releases:

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EiffelStudio 6.4 (2nd quarter 2009)

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UI

  • Customizable menus and toolbars
  • Revisit the project settings window
  • Progress bar for degree 6, for C compilation and for automatic precompilation
  • Better wizards
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Compiler

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Debugger

  • Allow edition of variables in debugger
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Ports

  • Mac native support
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Library

  • Resource library
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EiffelStudio 6.3 (4th quarter 2008)

This version will not bring major new functionality. We aim at fixing all the inconveniences that people may have experienced with our previous releases.

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EiffelStudio 6.2 (2nd quarter 2008)

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UI

  • Keyboard support for code browsing/activation - Esc to go to context reference in editor, F9 to set a breakpoint, etc.
  • More refactoring
  • Contract Editor.
  • More intellisense in the editor (snippet, ...)
  • Smart compiling (The goal is to not have to press the compile button ever).
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Compiler

  • More on attached types and CAPs
  • Exception as object
  • Catcall checker
  • Proper semantics of feature replication and non-conforming inheritance
  • Reading of UTF-8 Eiffel source file
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Documentation

  • Allow reference to external documentation from Eiffel code (external can be: wiki, PDF, Word documents, ...).
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Debugger

  • Expand execution replay mechanism; add possibility of changing values then replaying
  • Make sure debugger supports new (ISO/ECMA) mechanisms
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Internal

  • Reduce size of C generated in workbench mode
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EiffelStudio 6.1 (4th quarter 2007)

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UI

  • New Errors and Warnings tool
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Compiler

  • Attached mechanism
  • Non-conforming inheritance
  • Object test syntax support
  • Report more than one error at a time
  • Added support for MinGW on Windows
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Debugger

  • Execution replay
  • Various improvements
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EiffelStudio 6.0 (2nd quarter 2007)

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UI

  • Improved docking facilities in EiffelStudio to fully control the layout of EiffelStudio
  • Configurable pick-and-drop: user can choose between a contextual menu or pick-and-drop within the EiffelStudio environment
  • Internationalization support
  • Customizable shortcuts
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Compiler

  • Warning/error for changed environment variables used in a project configuration file
  • "Hidden" clusters in libraries, clusters that are not accessible if the library is used (like libraries in libraries are not accessible).
  • Clean up "inheritance" rules for project settings (e.g. assertion levels of libraries)
  • Addition of binary and octal notation for manifest integers
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Internal

  • Clean up delivery, names of tools, directory layout.
  • Get rid of *.wb files and store this in the user settings.
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EiffelStudio 5.7 (4th quarter 2006)

  • This is the first open source version of EiffelStudio. Look at the release notes of 5.7 for more information.
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