Re: v11 progress report

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> Aparajita Fishman
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:06 AM
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Subject: [Active4d-dev] v11 progress report
>
> Hi all,
>
> Despite my illness, fortunately I have been able to work
> quite a bit on Active4D v11. If you're wondering why it is
> taking me so long, Active4D represents more than 8 years of
> work with over 100 source files comprising 30,000 lines of code.
>
> I'm working my way up the layers upon which Active4D is
> built. Here is a basic picture of the architecture:
>
> runtime
> interpreter | server
> lists
> SymbolTable | values
> Variable4D
> framework
>      arrays | text | date/time | files | 4D environment | logging
>
> Almost everything in the framework has been done, at least
> enough to finish Variable4D, which is my class wrapper around
> the basic 4D variable type (PA_Variable).
>
> SymbolTable is also done. SymbolTable is the class used to
> implement Active4D collections, which I use to store local
> variables, sessions, http headers, cookies, etc.
>
> Now I'm working on Values, which are classes that model all
> of the values dealt with in the language
> (local/process/interprocess variables, collections,
> table/field references, and constants). This should a few days.
>
> Lists are things like a list of libraries, a list of sessions, etc.  
> They should only take a day, they are pretty small classes.
>
> The interpreter and server are quite complex as you can
> imagine, and will need a lot of work because of the change to
> Unicode. It could easily take me a week to finish those two.
>
> Finally there is the runtime. I have 22 runtime source files
> to go through. Some of them will take very little time. Some
> will take much more time because of Unicode changes and
> because any code that used the operating system API has to be
> changed. That could take a week or so to finish.
>
> So it looks like I'm 3-4 weeks away from a beta. I sure hope
> there are a lot of you out there waiting to upgrade...
>
> Regards,
>
>     Aparajita
>     www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>     "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
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>
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