PAKCS change log

Recent changes done in PAKCS (ordered by date):

March 16, 2009

Prolog code of the run-time system slightly changed to avoid problems with SWI-Prolog Version 5.7. In particular, meta_predicate declarations are now omitted.

August 26, 2008

Generated Prolog files (.pl/.po) are now stored in specific directory .pakcs.

July 3, 2008

Representation of AbstractCurry extended with a constructor CmtFunc so that one can also represent functions having a comment. This comment is formatted by the AbstractCurryPrinter as a documentation comment.

June 17, 2008

Module WUI: renderTaggedTuple added.

May 23, 2008

Handling of environment variables changed. SICSTUS and SPLD replaced by SICSTUSDIR

May 19, 2008

Bug fix for function patterns with logic variables as actual arguments

April 22, 2008

PAKCS exits with code 2 in case of "no more solutions".

March 7, 2008

Library Directory: renameFile and renameDirectory added.

March 6, 2008

Library Directory: removeFile and removeDirectory added.

February 7, 2008

lib/System.curry: Implementation of (un)setEnv changed

October 31, 2007

Problem: if main modules are loaded from other directories, imports in the same directories are not found for compilation. Fixed by changing parser imports in bin/.parsecurry

October 22, 2007

Tool erd2curry to compile entity-relationship diagrams into Curry programs added.

September 4, 2007

Implicit starting of CPNS demon moved from Prolog code to CPNS.registerPort

August 29, 2007

Parser warnings for shadowing improved.

July 11, 2007

Library Float: atan added

July 9, 2007

System: evalTime/evalSpace moved into library Profile

June 14, 2007

AbstractCurryPrinter: export declarations added (by Marion Mueller)

June 5, 2007

socketListen removed

June 4, 2007

IOExts: connectToSocket removed since it is contained in library Socket, choiceStreamOrMsgs removed since one can also use IO.hWaitForInputsOrMsg.

May 11, 2007

Implementation made compatible with SICStus4

May 11, 2007

Library Socket: socketINET and socketBind removed and integrated into new external function listenOn.

May 9, 2007

lib/Mail.curry: code and documentation improved

April 20, 2007

lib/Time: clockTimeToInt added

April 16, 2007

Implementation of CPNS demon changed to raw sockets.

April 13, 2007

lib/HTML.curry: bug fix for cookies

March 27, 2007

Bug fix in AbstractCurryPrinter

March 22, 2007

currydoc extended to TeX document generation

March 18, 2007

Bug in Dynamic.retractFact fixed

March 13, 2007

Library WUI: wSelectInt added

March 13, 2007

Database and KeyDatabase added.

March 13, 2007

Implementation of dynamic web pages changed from central event handler server (based on string communication) to servers for each web page. Library HtmlServer removed and library HtmlCgi added.

March 13, 2007

Eta expansion in code generation removed and implementation of I/O actions changed.

March 6, 2007

Library Distribution and parsecurry: reading of CurrySyntax supported

March 6, 2007

Library Distribution: front end call interface changed

February 27, 2007

Library HTML: intForm(Main) added to execute web pages in interactive mode.

February 27, 2007

Library GUI: addRegionStyle and removeRegionStyle added

February 5, 2007

lib/WUI: wui2html returns a "WUI handler" instead of a standard HTML handler in order to enable JavaScript checking before submission. wuiHandler2button transforms such a handler to a standard HTML button.

February 5, 2007

lib/WUIjs.curry (like WUI but with JavaScript support) added

February 5, 2007

currycreatemake tool added

February 1, 2007

FileGoodies: findFileInPath renamed to lookupFileInPath

January 26, 2007

lib/meta/CompactFlatCurry improved: modules are read in a demand-driven manner

January 22, 2007

tools/curry2js added

January 22, 2007

tools: currydocs.css + icons moved to include

January 22, 2007

lib/meta/CompactFlatCurry added and tools/optimize/CompactFlat changed accordingly

January 22, 2007

lib/JavaScript added

January 22, 2007

curry2prolog: Error handling improved: errors during Curry execution set now exit state 1 when leaving PAKCS.

January 22, 2007

lib/HTML: styleSheet, FormOnSubmit, addFormParams, addAttrs, runCgiWithKeyAndFormParams added.

January 22, 2007

bin/makecurrycgi: Parameter -wuijs added (preliminary)

January 22, 2007

lib/Distribution: installDir made public

December 22, 2006

Library Time: operations to/from ClockTime changed in order to provide a better distinction between UTC time and local time.

December 22, 2006

Library System: Date/getDate removed

December 21, 2006

Directory.getModificationTime returns a ClockTime instead of an Int

December 21, 2006

Library Time: internal representation of ClockTime changed

December 19, 2006

Bug fix for CURRYPATH in CurryBrowser

December 18, 2006

CurryBrowser: menu item "file information" added

December 12, 2006

lib/Distribution: scheme for finding loadpath improved

December 11, 2006

lib/XML.curry: updateXmlFile added

December 11, 2006

lib/Time.curry: toDayString added

December 8, 2006

Implementation of function pattern fixed so that function pattern variables are also shared in order to correctly implement call-time choice

December 7, 2006

lib/System: unsetEnviron added and set environment variables are now exported to every system call

November 22, 2006

lib/System: setEnviron added (and environ replaced by getEnv in Prolog sources)

November 13, 2006

tools/optimize/CompactFlat: Prelude.ensureNotFree added to list of defaults (since it is implicitly called by "$#").

November 10, 2006

lib/HTML.curry: updated for conformity with XHTML, in particular, constructor HtmlElem removed from datatype HTML.

November 10, 2006

lib/HTML_Parser.curry: updated for conformity with XHTML, i.e., reading extended for XHTML documents, and module renamed to HtmlParser

November 7, 2006

lib/XML.curry: hex coding of special characters is now recognized

November 1, 2006

lib/GUI.curry: appendTaggedValue replaced by appendStyledValue which offers more flexibility

November 1, 2006

lib/HTML.curry: bug w.r.t. line breaks in pre element fixed

October 17, 2006

matchHead/matchLast added to lib/Dequeue.curry

September 29, 2006

Coloring of HTML source code documentations integrated into currydoc

September 27, 2006

Shell script curry2prolog/curry2prolog removed (since everything is now done in the Prolog implementation), new PAKCS option -m added and old option -i PROG F changed to -i PROG -m F

September 26, 2006

Directory parser removed from distribution (parser/parsecurry moved to bin/.parsecurry)

September 26, 2006

Definition of Prelude.failed made external

September 22, 2006

GUI.getCursorPosition added