Earlier News

 

2000-06-28

  • Via the link "link to latest Changelog" everyone can follow the latest changes in Harbour.

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2000-06-19

  • Harbour-Project.org has its own web space now. No more redirection to the web space of WinFakt.com. We want to thank Patrick Mast of WinFakt.com for his help on providing web space in the past. Thanks Patrick! We also want to thank Phil Barnett for providing us the new web space. Thanks Phil!
  • The snapshots from the CVS tree are automaticly zipped every 3 hours instead of every 6 hours now.

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2000-06-11

  • There is a 2nd page at the Download Page for downloading Harbour Contributions.

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2000-06-08

  • The snapshots from the CVS tree are automaticly zipped every 6 hours into ZIP files wich you can download from the download page.
  • We have also made a Windows CHM help file from the Harbour documentation.
  • See the Download Page to download it. Be aware that these help files are build with
  • a application written in Harbour!!

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2000-06-06

  • Added the 16 bits DOS binaries of Harbour on the Download Page.
  • We have our own FTP server now! All downloadable files are stored on this FTP server. This should allow more smoothly downloads!

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2000-06-02

  • Release of Build #34
  • OO engine enhanced (multiple inheritance, scoping, forwarding and delegating)
  • Linux/Unix ncurses screen output and xterm mouse input support
  • MEMOEDIT support started
  • CONTRIBs better separated from core Harbour (TOOLS moved there)
  • Simplified and enhanced base for multiplatform coding
  • Language API (link/compile time language module selection)
  • Several small optimizations, enhancements and fixes (compiler, macro, GT, inkey, make and build systems, more strict compiler warnings)
  • Compiler pcode size optimizations (new compact pcode versions added and other tricks)
  • Far jump pcode support
  • Double number size support in pcode
  • Pcode finalized in the compiler, instead of the output generation modules.
  • OS/2 support improved (DISKSPACE(), MEMORY(), locks, etc...)
  • Linux/Unix support for file locks and commit.
  • DBFCDX index creation support (started)
  • Strong Typing support
  • OBJ generation support for BCC5x + Blinker5
  • Several new CONTRIBs (Nanfor LIB, ZLIB, MSQL, CA-Tools LIB, GT LIB)
  • Clipper 5.3 compatible MENUITEM, POPUP, TOPBAR classes
  • HBDOC further enhanced
  • RSX32 and RSXNT compiler support
  • SETKEY functions, ASORT(), SAVESCREEN/RESTSCREEN rewritten in C
  • Extensions (XPP, C53, Harbour) are easier to switch off and better separated from Harbour.
  • Some fixes for 10 chars support.
  • New most compact and fast -gc0 (C language) output method added.
  • -gf switch renamed to -go
  • Compiler /BUILD switch added
  • Crew list added to /CREDIT compiler switch
  • CURDIR(), CURDRIVE() fixed
  • Updated national language modules
  • More documented functions
  • Documented all db* related functions
  • New Item and Extend API functions
  • New tests
  • HBTEST made compatible with Xbase++
  • DBU sources can be compiled with Harbour without changes
  • Added more ADS RDD functions

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2000-06-01

  • We have a new Mailing List for Harbour users. See the Mailing List page for deatails.
  • Another quarter has going by, so news from the 2nd quarter 2000 can be found on this page: Earlier News 2nd quarter 2000

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2000-05-30

  • Now you can download the binaries from the latest snapshot form the CVS tree. See the Downloads Page.

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2000-05-22

  • A superb Harbour article on IBM.COM!! Thanks to David Mertz!

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2000-05-19

  • FiveTech announced "FiveWin for Harbour" today, Harbour's first 3rd party product!! See 3rd Party page for details.

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2000-05-11

  • Added Bison version 1.25 on the download page.

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2000-05-07

  • Added some HTML code so that this page is not read from your cache. This way you should always see the latest info without needing to press the refresh button on your browser.

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2000-05-01

  • Updated Windows Help file, Norton Guide and OS/2 IPF Help file on the download page.

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2000-04-29

  • Added Harbour Crew photos on the Harbour Crew page.
  • Added other Harbour crew members to the Harbour Crew page.
  • Added country daylight information on the Harbour Crew page. (click on the earth button)
  • Separated the contribution directory from the latest snapshot CVS tree.

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2000-04-17

  • We have managed to build our first Harbour EXE file without the help of a C compiler!
  • We linked a Harbour generated OBJ file with a popular linker to make this EXE.
  • Samples soon to folow!

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2000-04-15

  • With the help of Phil Barnett we have managed to get the DNS settings for the Harbour-Project.org domain back in place! Many thanks Phil!

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2000-04-15

  • We have some trouble with our DNS server. We hope to resolve this matter as soon as possible. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
  • Added Harbour build 33 binaries for DOS and Windows compiled with Borland C++ version 5.0.

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2000-04-11

  • Updated Mailing List page. OneList.com merged with eGroups.com.

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2000-04-09

  • Updated Windows Help file, Norton Guide and OS/2 IPF Help file on the download page.
  • Updated link to the Harbour documentation. It is on the local server now.

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2000-04-08

  • Release of Build #33
  • Final cleanups on global macro and symbol names.
  • DISKSPACE() enhancements
  • Microsoft C++ 8.x compiler support started
  • 10 character symbol support finalized
  • VAL() made fully compatible
  • New functions HB_COMPILER(), HB_FSIZE(), HB_FTEMPNAME(),
  • HB_FTEMPCREATE()
  • PP bug fixes.
  • More functions documented.
  • Fixed to compile with Borland C++ in C++ mode.
  • Handling of double/long number widths and decimals made completely
  • CA-Cl*pper compatible
  • Some new CA-Tools compatible functions added.
  • MEMO type support.
  • OS/2 DispBegin()/DispEnd() support
  • #pragma fixes and enhancements. (better XPP compatibility)
  • Source files split to several smaller files
  • GT API selection is now at link time instead of compile time
  • Make and build files further cleaned up, enhanced, optimized,
  • synchronized etc...
  • Compiler and platform detection enhanced, some hacks removed,
  • multiplatform cleanups and fixes.
  • Warning levels upped, warnings fixed, code quality raised
  • Version numbering standardized
  • Multiple source file support in Harbour command line
  • HBCLIP and RUNJAVA contribution dirs added
  • HBDOC Enhacements: New subtags for better output:

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2000-04-07

  • New Portugues mirror. Thanks to Luiz Rafael Culik. (Will be live on 2000-04-09) Thanks to Felipe G. Coury for mirroring the Harbour site the past year!

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2000-04-02

  • New web site look. It uses no frames anymore.
  • Updated Windows Help file, Norton Guide and OS/2 IPF Help file on the download page.
  • Updated link to FiveWin for Harbour on the 3rd Party page.

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