Environment Roadmap

Roadmap information for EiffelStudio releases:

6.2

• Attached mechanism
• Ability to download libraries/applications from a website directly from EiffelStudio (see Discovering Configuration Files)

Ports

• Mac native support

6.1

UI

• Customizable menus and toolbars

Library

• Resource library

Compiler

• Progress bar for degree 6, C compilation and automatic precompilation
• Non-conforming inheritance
• Proper semantics of feature replication
• Exception as object
• Object test syntax support
• Reading of UTF-8 Eiffel source file

Internal

• Reduce size of C generated in workbench mode

6.0 (2nd 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
• Customizable shortcuts
• Keyboard support for code browsing/activation - Esc to go to context reference in editor, F9 to set a breakpoint, etc.

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

Internal

• 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.