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From: nosmo@eiffel.UUCP (Vince Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Good problems (and Eiffel 2.3)
Summary: Some Eiffel 2.3 news.
Message-ID: <389@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 17:56:38 GMT
References: <104@alfrat.uucp> <2070@trlluna.trl.oz>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From article <2070@trlluna.trl.oz>, greg@trlamct.trl.oz.au (Greg Aumann):
>From article <104@alfrat.uucp>, by roy@alfrat.uucp (Roy Phillips):
>> 
>> Lastly, do you have 2.3 yet? the graphics library is far superior, in my view,
>> than the previous version - you might  not have to mess around with the C
>> interface (urrgh!) at all, unless you're into serious 3D animation applications.
>
>Does this mean that Eiffel 2.3 is released?  If so when will those with 
>support contracts get it?  Perhaps someone from ISE could post the release
>notes.  You say the graphics classes are usable does this mean that they
>now have a proper interface to X Windows and not this attempt at a generic
>windows interface complete with floating point co-ordinates?
>

I will try to answer your questions as completely as I can:

1. Eiffel version 2.3 is currently in Beta release.  It will be
officially released to the general public some time in the future.  All
organizations that are eligible to receive 2.3 as an update will receive
information about this fact.

As usual, we will be posting a document outlining the changes,
improvements, bug fixes and known bugs in the compiler and libraries
about the time we release 2.3.

Unfortunately, for Greg, the revisions to the graphics library have not
included an encapsulation of the Xlib or Xt level of X, for this
release.  We are currently designing and implementing a more complete
graphics library, which will have some of these low level elements.  It
will also have a much more complete set of UI objects.  It will be
released in ... the future. 

Vince Kraemer
ISE Tech. Support
(technical correspondence to: eiffel@eiffel.com)