Hello everybody, we have prepared a first release of the development branch of EiffelStudio 5.7 for OpenBSD x86. EiffelStudio was released as GPL software on April 5th, 2006. It can be downloaded at
http://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/downloads/builds EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel programming language. Eiffel is an advanced object-oriented programming language that features concepts like Design by Contract or multiple inheritance. Eiffel is compiled to machine language via C code. The Eiffel language has been adopted by ISO as an international standard in 2006. EiffelStudio is a modern IDE that is maintained by Eiffel Software (www.eiffel.com). It has a history of 20 years of development and is moving ahead at a fast pace. Current features are the integration of a debugger, a round-trip UML/Bon editor, a GUI builder and some refactoring support. Programms written in Eiffel are normally highly portable between operating systems. In the long run, I would like to provide a usual port, that even might be integrated into the OpenBSD ports collection (still have to learn how to do ports, though). Currently, we only have a binary release for OpenBSD 3.9 on x86. It should be easy to target other hardware platforms using the provided "PorterPackage", a "precompiled to C" version of the IDE and compiler. Please note again that the current release is based on the development branch (the last stable release was pre-GPL) and has many known issues. Any feedback is welcome, Bernd
