Environment Roadmap
A separate page gives the detailed roadmap for implementation of the full ISO/ECMA Eiffel standard.
Roadmap information for EiffelStudio releases:
Contents
EiffelStudio 6.2 (2nd quarter 2008)
UI
- Customizable menus and toolbars
Compiler
- Proper semantics of feature replication
- Reading of UTF-8 Eiffel source file
- Ability to download libraries/applications from a website directly from EiffelStudio (see Discovering Configuration Files)
- Progress bar for degree 6, C compilation and automatic precompilation
Library
- Resource library
Ports
- Mac native support
EiffelStudio 6.1 (4th quarter 2007)
UI
- Revisit the project settings window
- Keyboard support for code browsing/activation - Esc to go to context reference in editor, F9 to set a breakpoint, etc.
Compiler
- Attached mechanism
- Non-conforming inheritance
- Exception as object
- Object test syntax support
- Report more than one error at a time
- Catcall checker
Debugger
- Reverse execution
- Various improvements
Internal
- Reduce size of C generated in workbench mode
EiffelStudio 6.0 (2nd quarter 2007)
UI
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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
Compiler
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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
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Clean up delivery, names of tools, directory layout. -
Get rid of *.wb files and store this in the user settings.
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.
