New release: Gobo 3.5

Hello,

The long awaited new release of the Gobo package is now
available from the usual locations:

http://www.gobosoft.com/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gobo-eiffel/

It contains many new libraries and tools since the last release,
among which:

* An Eiffel library for command-line argument parsing.
* An XSLT processor entirely written in Eiffel using
the Gobo Eiffel XML Library.
* An Eiffel compiler, still under development but already
able to compile all the Eiffel code contained in the
Gobo package.

For more details, please read the Readme file and the online
documentation:

http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/Readme.txt
http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/index.html

The Gobo package supports most Eiffel compilers:

* GEC: the Gobo Eiffel compiler, of course.

* ISE: note that although it has been successfully
tested with versions 5.7/6.0, I want to boycott
this version of the compiler in protest against
ECF and the way ISE introduced it. Therefore
Gobo 3.5 does not officially support 5.7/6.0.
Because ECF has also caused many problems to some
users of Gobo who were not able to switch to ISE 5.7,
Gobo will still support ISE 5.6 for the time being.

* SE: only the 1.2 development branch of this compiler
is supported. SE 2.* is not supported anymore because
it implements another language than the one supported
in Gobo.

* VE: it's probably the last release of Gobo that
supports Visual Eiffel. The problem is that there
has been no activity on the VE mailing list and
SourceForge repository for almost 2 years. This
is a big issue for Gobo because we cannot use some
Eiffel constructs implemented for a long time in
other compilers such as Agents for example which
are still missing in VE.

Finally, note that following a discussion at NICE a
few months ago, the next version of Gobo will be
released under the MIT license.

--
Eric Bezault
mailto:ericb@gobosoft.com
http://www.gobosoft.com

Is there any progress with the gobo compiler?

Only ISE as the last active developed compiler isn't good. And you
could
drop most of the gobo code that is already covered by the ISE runtime.