From: Markus Böhm [[email protected]] Sent: 08 December 2009 07:04 To: Torsten Anders Subject: Mozart Next Release
Torsten, I hardly dare to ask on the Mozart mailing list. As a hobby programmer and very much interested in parallel and constraint programming I feel that Mozart/Oz has lot's of potential in multicore era. The CTM book is convincing. Why is there hardly any activity regarding that programming language? Will there be a new version of Mozart/Oz? Peter van Roy once announced some new functionality on the mailing list, but nothing happened since then. Markus Boehm Munich ---- Dear Markus, First let me make clear that I am a Mozart/Oz user, not a developer (although I occasionally provide bugfix patches). For me as a user Oz just works as it is, the implementation is very mature and so it is fine for me that updates happen only rarely. Concerning multicore programming: this was addressed by the latest update (1.4.0) which completely rewrote the distribution programming layer of Oz. A minor maintenance release was already discussed at the Oz mailing list, but I don't know its current status. Anyway, to see the development that is currently underway you might want to check out the SVN repository at http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=mozart There have been various fixes to the main development trunk since that last release. Log of changes to trunk. Warning: very long file... (last release was revision 17033) http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/mozart/?root=mozart&view=log Directory view http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/mozart/?root=mozart The next major release will replace the current constraint programming layer and replace it with an interface to Gecode. The main developer on this layer is Gustavo Gutierrez. I understood from previous discussions with him that this work is already in an advanced stage. http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/branches/mozart-gecode/mozart/?root=mozart http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/branches/mozart-gecode/mozart/?root=mozart&view=log Best wishes, Torsten -- Torsten Anders Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research University of Plymouth http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
