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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Release 2.2 details wanted
Message-ID: <134@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 19:14:32 GMT
References: <57790@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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From <57790@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU
(Rob Jellinghaus):
> [...] Over the last couple of months, there have been mentions
> of many changes from 2.1 to 2.2. [...]
> When will there be a formal announcement of what exactly all these changes
> are, and how they are used?  Will there be a new edition of OOSC?
> [...] Will all the relevant information make it into this newsgroup?

	A document entitled ``Release 2.2 overview'' is included in the
documentation for release 2.2. From what Mr. Jellinghaus writes it seems
a good idea to post a (perhaps abbreviated) version of that document
here. This will be done as soon as the release is ready for shipping.

	By the way, 2.2 will be a few weeks late. We should be
shipping before May 15. Sorry.

	A complete language description is in preparation under the title
``Eiffel: The Language and Environment'', to be published
at the end of this year by Prentice-Hall International. This book will be
devoted to Eiffel itself, not to the underlying method, and will provide
a more precise specification than can be inferred from OOSC.
The publication of both ETLE and a new edition of OOSC will be
timed to coincide with the release of version 3.

	There will be a posting about version 3 (with requests for comments)
in this news group as soon as we are through with 2.2. I view Version 3 as
the final one with respect to the language - the tools and libraries being
of course another story.
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-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com