[Vipsi-News] version 0.8.0 released

[kio <ki...@li...>]

Hi everybody,

vipsi version 0.8.0 is out.                <http://vipsi.sourceforge.net>

this is the first public release after my move to Linux.

this version is alpha for public testing and still contains known bugs and 
not-yet-implemented features. though, as version 0.5.0, it is already usable. 
a major internal modification is the switch to the use of UCS-4 strings 
instead of UTF-8, a step which was required to make characters in strings 
indexable (as opposed to bytes). play around with this version and report 
bugs and flaws.

Changes:

0.8.0:

internal: use of UCS-4 strings
error position indication
fixed i/o possible error
execute system commands
renamed string concatenation operator to #
renamed list concatenation operator to ##
eliminated data type "void"
sub-ranges in lists like in strings: my_list[a to e]
implemented mounted filesystem list for Linux
history in shell mode
alias "calc" for quick calculation mode
completed list of assignment operators
suppressed automagic printing of results after assignments 

0.8.1:

minor tweaks to make it compile on MacOS X

	... kio !