[q-lang-users] Q 7.11 RC1 available

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi,

RC1 for Q 7.11 is now available in testing:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=188958

(Currently it's just a tarball, but I'll upload SUSE RPMs and Windows
MSI asap.)

Here's what's new in this release:

- As suggested by Rob Hubbard and John Cowan, special Unicode characters
in strings can now be specified using an escape of the form '\&name;',
where name is any of the XML entity names specified here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/

- clib now provides a set of additional int/float vector operations, as
suggested by John Cowan on the mailing list a while ago. These allow you
to treat byte strings as mutable C vectors of signed/unsigned 8/16/32
bit integers or float/double values. Operations to convert between such
C vectors and corresponding lists of integers/floating point values are
provided as well.

- The glob and regex functions were moved back from system into clib.

Note that the latter change affects code which does a qualified import
of fnmatch/glob or regex et al, so you should check your scripts for
that. QCalc is the only addon module affected in the distribution, and
I've uploaded a new tarball (qcalc-1.1) for that already.

As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs asap.

Enjoy.
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
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