[ANN] Idle 0.20 beta (RC1)
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- Subject: [ANN] Idle 0.20 beta (RC1)
- From: Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@...>
- Date: 2008年2月11日 16:04:09 +0000
Once again sitting at my drab desk -- after a nice, long trek across
south-east Asian rice paddies and amazing temple landscapes (and night
markets) -- I am nevertheless happy to announce the first beta release
of Idle.
Actually, this is RC1. If no major hiccups surface, I will release the
beta in about a weeks' time.
Changes for this version are restricted to the runtime library (i.e. no
fiddling with the language). They include:
+ a set of console I/O functions, including scrolling the screen buffer
and full raw keyboard input
+ functions to send keypresses to other applications and to manipulate
windows
+ functions to support the Win32 file change notification API
+ a global variable printf which is by default initialised with
util.printf(). This shorthand allows the easy redirection of all
formatted output (e.g. by setting printf to win32.printf()).
+ the Idle runtime DLL is now called 'idle02.dll' with the two digits
being the runtime version (currently 0.2). This version number (and
hence the name) will only change if I have to introduce changes which
are not backward compatible.
- a small, but not-backward-compatible change to util.unpack() concerns
the unpacking of zero-terminated ASCII strings
- for reasons of consistency the functions os.spawn(), os.wait() and
os.kill() have been renamed to os.spawnProcess( ), os.waitProcess()
and os.killProcess()
- updated several core modules and libraries to current releases (among
them Lua 5.1.3, LuaJIT 1.1.4 and PCRE 7.6)
I have also removed the time limits that were present in the earlier
alpha builds: the beta version (and all future versions) will run
without such restrictions.
This version is available for systems running Windows 2000 and later.
For details, documentation and downloads see http://idle.thomaslauer.com
--
cheers thomasl
web: http://thomaslauer.com/start