EiffelStudio 6.5 Releases
Below are not the release notes of EiffelStudio. It is the change log of EiffelStudio intermediate releases and the most important changes are highlighted in green or in red (for breaking changes). The release notes of EiffelStudio can be found at the following URL. You can also download the latest revision here. Information about other version can be found under Category:Releases.
EiffelStudio 6.5.x Releases
6.5.x
Placeholder for new stuff since last intermediate release.
New features
Improvements
- studio: Improved error messages for VUAR/VJAR/VBAR errors to mention compatibility instead of just conformance.
- ec: Fixed command line compilation to use the current working directory unless -project_path is specified (restoring pre-ecf behavior)
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- base: Fixed bug#4118 where on .NET `put' had no effect on the actual process environment variables because the API was only available in .NET 2.0 which is what we support at the minimum.
User changes
Developer changes
6.5.7.9743 (July 13th 2009)
New features
- base: Added `own_from_pointer' in C_STRING.
Improvements
- studio:Made some bug fixes and improvements to the new output tool.
- studio: Added tooltip to precompilation wizard list to show item's ecf file path
Feature removed
Bug fixes
- autotest: Fixed bug#15875 where selecting a test class and choosing run had no effect, now it will run all the test cases defined in that class.
- base: Added missing `own_from_pointer' routine in the .NET version of MANAGED_POINTER
- base: Made TYPE class similar to the classic version.
- studio: Fixed bug#13103: Cannot set Shift+Esc as a shortcut in the preferences dialog.
- studio: Fixed typo reported by bug#13220 in the Metric tool.
- compiler: Fixed issue where one could not debug an application if the `executable_name' specified in the ECF contained the .exe suffix on Windows. This fixes bug#11834.
User changes
- compiler: the indexing value volatile previously introduced has been renamed into transient.
Developer changes
6.5.7.9500
New features
- base: Changed {ANY}.generating_type to return an instance of TYPE
- runtime: Added support for transient attributes for store/retrieve. A transient attribute is an attribute which is not stored at runtime and for which its absence in the retrieval system has no effect.
- compiler: Supported detection and validity error report for VSRP(3) (the root procedure is not precondition-free) (see test#vsrp301).
