EiffelStudio

This release adds support for handling Unicode filenames,
environment variables, and
commandline arguments to your applications while preserving backward compatibility for
existing code.

This Unicode support is based on UTF-8 for Unix and UTF-16 for Windows.

The STRING classes can now perform a caseless string comparison of Unicode characters.

The Eiffel Information System has been improved.

Various bugfixes and improvements have been made.

This release contains major improvements in the areas of concurrency (via the SCOOP technology) and void-safety by making it easier to migrate to void-safe code. In addition, it has many small improvements to make EiffelStudio easy to use includes more and more external contributions.

Various bugfixes. This release improves the void-safety implementation and addresses some bugs. It has an improved SCOOP implementation that is much faster than in 6.8.

This release candidate for EiffelStudio 6.8 which includes the following new features: SCOOP (Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming technology), the ability to attach a running process to the EiffelStudio debugger, an improved EiffelStore library and MySQL handle, and various compiler and EiffelStudio bugfixes.

Some SCOOP-related issues have been fixed. An issue on some Unix systems with not being able to delete a directory containing symbolic links that cannot be resolved was also fixed. The drawing of the tree connector in EV_GRID was fixed.