[lbpp-devel] GLBCC Development Status

[Anthony L. <aj...@be...>]

All,

I have just checked in a whole bunch of new code to the
GLBCC CVS repository.  I completed the final rewrite (this would be the
third) and finally have the architecture that is desirable for the next
release of GLBCC.

This next release is going to have the following features:

1) Full grammatical support for LB2.02 (with the exception of some
rather vexing grammatical oddities that are being removed from the
language)
2) Support for code importation via CALLDLL or DECLARE (I've had a
slight change-of-heart with CALLDLL...)
3) User defined functions and sub routines that are C-exportable
(translation: create DLLs in LB)
4) RPM driven Linux release and Ghost Installer driven Windows release
5) Support for all console based statements and functions
6) Support for basic GUI functionality (all GUI controls, window* types,
and maybe text type)
7) Support for stream based I/O

What will be added in the 0.2.x series prior to a 0.3.0 release:
1) Full GUI functionality
2) Wizard-style front end for creating executables or DLLs
3) Random access file I/O
4) Full LB2.02 compatibility with the exception of direct hardware
access and again some of the rather odd grammatical aspects of LB.
5) Native socket support
6) Lots of supporting functions
7) Syntax checking to the point where there is no way GLBCC will
generate bad code.

The 0.2.0 release should be coming within the next week or two.  I
imagine that there might be a 'developer' release prior to the official
release because I want to spend a good amount of time making all the
various installations work correctly.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Author - GLBCC (GNU/Liberty Basic Compiler Collection)
http://lbpp.sourceforge.net