[q-lang-users] ANN: Q 7.0 release candidate

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

Hi,

it took much too long, but at long last I finished unicode support in 
the Q interpreter and the core modules. As a bonus, I also threw in a 
new GUI builder which generates native Q code and is based on Peter G. 
Baum's Gnocl, a very nice Tcl extension for building GNOME/GTK+ 
applications (http://gnocl.sf.net).

I have already been testing the new release on my Linux development box 
for some weeks, and the unicode stuff seems to work o.k., at least in 
utf8 and latin1 locales. But due to the complex nature of the changes, 
I'm first releasing a candidate, in the hope that at least some of you 
can do some more testing. In particular, it would be nice if those of 
you who work in non-Western locales could give the new release a whirl 
(do we have any Q programmers from the Far East on the list?), so that 
bugs can be weeded out before the final release.

Windows users: sorry, but you will have to wait a little more, I hope I 
get around porting the new release this week. I also want to check other 
platforms such as OS X asap, and I still have to overhaul the add-on 
modules (multimedia library etc.) to make them unicode-aware. (Another 
big item on my TODO list which didn't make it into the 7.0 release yet 
is 64 bit support, I'm afraid that this will have to wait until Q 7.1.)

The q-7.0rc1 tarball is available for download here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=103965

And you can find the release notes here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=391246&group_id=96881

A screenshot of the new GUI builder is available here:
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/gqbuilder.png

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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