Environment Roadmap
Roadmap information for EiffelStudio releases:
6.2
- Attached mechanism
6.1
- Non-conforming inheritance
- Proper semantics of feature replication
- Configurable commands (i.e. location and shortcut)
- Addition of binary and octal notation for manifest integers
- Exception as object
- Resource library
6.0 (1st quarter 2007)
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
- Keyboard support for code browsing/activation - F12 to go to context reference in editor, F9 to set a breakpoint, etc.
Compiler
- Progress bar for degree 6, C compilation and automatic precompilation
- Object test syntax support
- Warning/error for changed environment variables used in a project configuration file
- Ability to download libraries/applications from a website directly from EiffelStudio (see Discovering Configuration Files)
- Reading of UTF-8 Eiffel source 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)
Ports
- Mac native support
Internal
- Reduce size of C generated in workbench mode
- Clean up delivery, names of tools, directory layout.
- Get rid of *.wb files and store this in the user settings.
5.7
- This is the first open source version of EiffelStudio. Look at the release notes of 5.7 for more information.
