Library Categorization

The goal of this page is to offer a better file hierarchy for Eiffel libraries included in EiffelStudio. Currently (as of EiffelStudio 6.4 and older) you have a flat representation of libraries under $ISE_LIBRARY and they are represented by their name. Our goal is to provide a hierarchy based on what they provide. Our inspiration is the FreeBSD ports hierarchy which is only one level deep.

Here is the list of libraries included flat in EiffelStudio 6.4:

• api_wrapper: Make it easy to call C routines from dynamically loaded shared libraries
• argument_parser: Parsing the command line arguments of a program
• base: Kernel library classes, data structure, reflection, I/O
• com: COM technology
• diff: Diff and patch facilities
• docking: Facility to have a customizable UI.
• Eiffel2Java: Calling Java from Eiffel
• encoding: Transforming text in one encoding to another encoding
• event: Low level mechanism to receive a UI event when a file/pipe has something new.
• gobo: Gobo
• gobo_extension: ISE gobo extensions
• graph: Representation of graph in UI (See diagram tool in Eiffel Studio).
• i18n: Internationalization library:
• lex: lexical analysis
• memory_analyzer: Memory analysis
• net: Networking library
• parse: Parsing:
• preferences: Facility to store user preferences
• process: Facility to start and follow processes
• store: Relational database access
• testing: Testing facility
• thread: Threading in Eiffel
• time: Time facility
• uuid: UUID generation facility
• vision2: Platform independent UI toolkit
• vision2_extension: Extension to Vision2
• web: CGI facility for Eiffel
• wel: UI toolkit for Windows

A proposed structure would be: