Franca 0.10.0 available

[Klaus Birken]

Hi all,

we are glad to announce that Franca 0.10.0 is available. This release has a lot of bugfixes and some new features, with some of them changing the IDL in an incompatible way (mostly restrictions for pathological cases). To properly indicate this, we changed the minor version from 0.9 to 0.10. You might be aware that we currently will not update the major version, because 1.0 is reserved for Franca as an official Eclipse project.

Release 0.10.0 can be downloaded from Google Drive. See below a list of new features in 0.10.0, please refer to the corresponding issues in the Franca issue tracker for details.

BTW: We will soon migrate the Franca home (incl. the git repository) from its current location on Google Code to its new home on github. This has become necessary because Google Code will be shut down end of this year and will switch to read-only mode end of August.

Best regards,

Klaus

New with version 0.10.0 (clickable version)

Some changes in 0.10.0 might require updates of Franca model files, marked with an asterisk below.

- IDL: Support hex values in Franca expressions (issue 92)

- * IDL: Same name for type collection and interface is no more allowed (issue 96)

- * IDL: Hidden enumerator definitions are detected now (issue 135)

- * IDL: Fixed resolving of constants from other type collections (issue 150)

- IDL: Allow initializers for constants of type ByteBuffer and implicit array (issue 151)

- * IDL: Introduced arrow operator for addressing struct and union elements (issue 155)

- Deployment: Attach deployment attributes also to typedefs (issue 144)

- Deployment: Allow accessing of properties for type collections (issue 146)

- Deployment: Fix accessor generation for empty package names (issue 147)

- Framework: Revert broken FrancaPersistenceManager API in 0.9.2 (issue 153)

- Tools: Fixed wizard for creating new fidl/fdepl files (issue 149)

[tingting zhu]

Hi Klaus  ,

I'm a student and I'm working on something related to franca integration, and some problems occurred during the integration process.

I would like to know that whether do you still have the old version before Franca 0.10.0 in private? I have some problems when integrating franca with the latest version 0.13.0. So I want to try the old version to see if it can be integrated into my program. I'm very sorry to interrupt, and I look forward to get your reply, thank you.

Best regards,

zhu

[Klaus Birken]

Hi,

Zhu meanwhile was able to install Franca and Eclipse, I think it was 0.13.0. Just for others who might have problems as well, here is a pointer to the "Quick Install Guide" wiki page: https://github.com/franca/franca/wiki/Franca-Quick-Install-Guide

This should provide all required information.

Regards,

Klaus