Aparajita, That's great progress, thanks for your effort! Hope your illness is but a memory by next update.
Mike Vogt Willsub > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Aparajita Fishman > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:06 AM > To: [email protected] > 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." > - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
