...and we're back

[Luke]

Well, it has been a couple of years since the last release of Open
Quark 1.7.1. While a number of us have been happily using the
framework for various purposes since then and others have been
experimenting/learning in CAL, we haven't really been in a great
position to evolve the actual framework or tools.

I have now created repositories on github for:
- Open-Quark (the main platform sources)
- CAL-Eclipse-Plug-in (the main Eclipse IDE plug-in for CAL
development)
- Embedded-CAL (the Eclipse IDE plug-in for embedding CAL in Java
source)
- Charm (a project for non-platform libraries - basically CAL module
contributions that have not been promoted to the platform)

It looks like github will be an excellent home for the sources, and
for defect tracking ("issues"). It is probably also a great place to
collaborate with the per-project wikis. We will keep the
openquark.org web site of general more static project information and
this discussion group can continue as the main resource for comments
on general usage, Q&A etc.

There are some updates that will probably be committed quite soon, and
I expect more to come from my neck of the woods. Naturally, I would
like to start to organise a small group of key collaborators/
committers, and in general please make yourselves known if you have
any interesting contributions to make.

By and large 1.7.1 has been a pretty stable release and has worked
well since 2007, but it's now time to see if we can't start to get the
ball rolling again on framework and tools - at least a few bug fixes,
but maybe even some new features :-)

Here are the links to the repos:
http://github.com/levans/Open-Quark
http://github.com/levans/CAL-Eclipse-Plug-in
http://github.com/levans/Embedded-CAL
http://github.com/levans/Charm

At the time of writing the Charm project is empty, but this should be
addressed very soon.

-- Luke

P.S. I'm a complete n00b when it comes to github (and indeed git), but
so far things seem to have worked straightforwardly. Let me know if
you spot anything odd though.

[Andrew Eisenberg]

Congratulations! Is the plan to start releasing new versions again?
I may start playing around with CAL again.

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[kolc...@gmail.com]

Very good news.

> Here are the links to the repos:http://github.com/levans/Open-Quarkhttp://github.com/levans/CAL-Eclipse-Plug-inhttp://github.com/levans/Embedded-CALhttp://github.com/levans/Charm

[Luke]

Well by all accounts there are some patches dotted around that I'd
like to get merged into the new masters for the platform and main
Eclipse plug-in.
If we can start with these, then of course it's up to the community as
to how much we can really do next, but yes it would be good to have a
1.7.2 to consolidate some discrete improvements and we'll see what
sort of traction we could get to do a 1.8.0 with some new features in
both platform and tools.

Maybe Embedded CAL could learn a few new tricks ;-)

On Jan 17, 9:59 pm, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenb...@gmail.com>
wrote: