[q-lang-users] CVS issues/Q 7.1

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

Hi,

not much traffic here for a while, so I thought a quick update was in 
order. ;-)

As some of you may have noticed already, anonymous cvs is currently 
lagging behind developer cvs quite a lot (8 weeks!), apparently because 
sf.net is currently deploying new cvs servers. There seem to be some 
serious issues with the new servers, though (in fact, currently even 
developer cvs doesn't work any more for me and lots of other sf-hosted 
projects). That's unfortunate because Q 7.1 is almost ready in cvs. :(

I filed support requests on these issues but didn't receive a reply yet 
(and if I see the number of cvs support requests piling up, I doubt that 
I get a reply very soon), so I don't know when this mess will be fixed.

FYI, a quick summary of the new features in Q 7.1 is attached to this 
post. The most important changes are in the warning messages of the 
compiler and the handling of enumerations, streams and list 
comprehensions, and there is still one more experimental new feature on 
my TODO list for this release, which should further improve the handling 
of lazy data structures.

If anyone is interested in trying out the new release before I do the 
final touches, I can upload an up-to-date tarball as a release candidate.

The road ahead: For Q 7.2, I'd like to work on the 64 bit support and 
renew the support for OS X. Please let me know if you're willing to help 
with that. (Currently I only have access to Intel 64 bit machines, so 
any beta testers with other setups like AMD64, G5 etc. are welcome...)

Cheers,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag