[XPS-devel] XPS 0.2.0 Released

[Reid S. <ras...@re...>]

Hello,

XPS 0.2.0 was released today. This is a pre-release version of the
eXtensible Programming System. After two years of integration with LLVM
and battling the XML validation challenge, we are finally making
progress again. For full details, please review the release notes at
http://x-p-s.net/releases/0.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.shtml.

This version marks some significant milestones in XPS development:

* The definition of XPL core has been finalized. XPL core is the lowest
  level language that XPS supports. It provides semantics very close to
  the semantics of the LLVM intermediate representation.
* This release provides a version of xplc, the XPL compiler, that can
  validate XPL core programs and reproduce them in XPL as output. This
  is used to verify that the basic parsing, validation, compilation and
  generation infrastructure is in working order.
* This release offers a test suite with 1000+ test cases derived from
  the LLVM 1.5 Feature and Regression tests. The test suite is used to
  ensure that all semantic constructs are recognized by the compiler and
  correctly interpreted and processed.
* This release introduces the XPL Back End for LLVM which can generate
  valid XPL source code from any LLVM intermediate represenation.
* XPS now uses Subversion for its source code repository.
* XPS selected Relax NG for XML validation.
* XPS incorporated the JING Relax NG validator.
* XPS now uses the LLVM Makefile System for configuration and building.

For further details on XPS, please visit http://x-p-s.org/

Best Regards,

Reid Spencer