[q-lang-users] Happy new year!

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

First, I'd like to say hello to all newcomers on this list, and a happy 
new year to everyone!

As you probably noticed, the holidays have been quite busy for me, but 
now that Q 4.6 is out of the door, along with Q-Audio 1.2 and Q-Midi 
1.12, and the new website at sf.net is up, too, I can start working on 
the next Q release. In case anyone is wondering what I'm up to next, 
here's my current roadmap for the next release, which concentrates on 
the C<->Q interface and web programming facilities:

- Add some stuff to libq (the Q->C interface) which is used in several 
modules, specifically: mkuint, isuint, mkbool, isbool. This is already 
in CVS. Unfortunately, this required a change of the binary API, so 
existing modules (including q-audio and q-midi) have to be recompiled if 
you use the latest CVS version.

- Add a C->Q interface (libqint). This will allow the interpreter to be 
used as an embedded macro or programming language or as a rewriting 
engine in C/C++ applications, which is something several users have 
asked for. If you are interested in this, you can get a first impression 
of how the new interface will look like by checking out src/qint.h in Q cvs.

- Once this is finished, I'll go about implementing a Q Apache module. 
This will allow Q to be used for server-side scripting of HTML content 
in the same way as, e.g., Perl, Python and PHP. Please see 
http://modules.apache.org/ for more information.

- Add a libcurl module. This will facilitate the transferring of files 
with URL syntax using different protocols. See http://curl.haxx.se/.

When all that is finished (hopefully in the next 2-3 months), after the 
release of Q 4.7, I think I'm going to focus again on the multimedia 
library. Specifically, I started making plans for a new Q-Video module 
which will allow access to different video file formats.

As always, your comments are appreciated. :) Do you have anything to add 
to the above list? Any other items on your personal Q wishlist? Let me know!

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag