History of Nife releases : 2014-06-27 - Nife 0.49 is released. * Add DEC, HEX, OCT and BIN functions to define the print mode for the integers. The default is decimal. * Modify signals comportment to accept interrupt from terminal to stop execution in the main (interactive) task. * Fixed an error in the case of the end: label is before the onerr: one. * Fixed a bug when a signal "segmentation violation" is catched. * Add some help facilities suggested by Alain Empain, until his tools are efficient in Nife. * Beginning the functions dump and restore with definition of the NBLF, Nife Binary Linkable Format (just for a Request for Comments ;-). * The installation has been tested by Gaetan Angely on three ARM SBCs: Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, ODROID-U3 with Arch Linux ARM. All information about Arch Linux ARM at http://archlinuxarm.org/. He have compared with two Intel processors and have published a benchmak on the two mailing lists. 2014-05-10 - Nife 0.47 is released. * Beginning an I2C interface for Linux systems, inspired by the Linux package i2c-tools. * The I2C interface has been developped and tested by P. Foubet with his students Elodie Kerfourn and Aymeric Diankouika. They connected a Raspberry Pi with an Arduino board through the I2C bus and wrote a Nife program to highlight the data exchange between the two elements. * The installation has been tested by Bernard Bonno on a Raspberry Pi board Model A with Porteus ARM (based on a Slackware ARM 14.0). 2013-09-25 - Nife 0.44 is released. * Fixed a bug causing a "segmentation violation" during compilation of the Nife code on some systems as Raspberry Pi A and B and others. This bug was reported by Bernard Bonno during tests on a Raspberry Pi Model A with 256 Mo of memory. * The installation has been tested by Bernard Bonno on a PC i484 with a Linux Porteus 2.0. All information about Porteus at http://www.porteus.org/. 2013-09-09 - Nife 0.43 is released. * Establishment of a sub-directory .nife to facilitate debugging and store temporary files. * Update some functions dependant on working directory. * Fixed some bugs in the gplot tools due to new versions of gnuplot. * The installation has been tested by Patrick Foubet on a Raspberry Pi board Model B with standard Raspbian (Squeeze). All information about the board at http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs. 2012-10-23 - Nife 0.405 is released. * Fixed a bug in the data transfer protocol STSP. * Adding Dt indicators in the list giving by ?n function. * Fixed a bug in the netDt> function. * The installation has been tested by Patrick Foubet on a Beaglebone board (Linux beaglebone 3.2.5+ #1 ... armv7l GNU/Linux) lended by the school ESME Sudria for preparing a course on Linux drivers. All information about the board at http://beagleboard.org/bone. 2012-09-01 - Nife 0.401 is released. * Beginning the multi-threading mechanisms based on POSIX thread. * Adding programmation tools end: and goto_end. * Increasing error tracking : - giving the file name and the line number, - stopping compilation at first error, - allowing load in load. - adding functions ?err, noerr, messerr, ?lasterr and onerr: label. * Dynamic code tools : - "load to load a file in a user function, - "exec to compile some code in a user function, - functions ' and ` to specify names to be executed latter. * Limit for all names at 24 characters. * Modifying install variables functions to work in user functions. * Adding the free-context loop with do mechanisms : - do_next to bypass a loop in free-context, - do_leave and *do_leave to leave one or many loops in free-context, * Updating the sh command to use the SHELL environment variable. 2012-07-05 - Nife 0.341 is released. * Adding more fonctions to deal with devices with Comedilib : - write fonction available, - define a default set of parameters to simplify programs. * Update documentation for theses new commands. 2012-06-10 - Nife 0.323 is released. * Continuing distributed systems tools elaborated with Thomas Pabst : - Adding netCompile to load a Nife file on a remote Nife using NetKey. If this file contains a call of one or more functions, they will be executed, and the result will be send on the Net using NetKey. - Adding NetErr to get the Net Error value. * Adding the ex directory in src with some program examples : - gp.nif, an example for gplot functions, - rpc.nif and rpc2.nif for Nife RPC example. 2012-06-06 - Nife 0.320 is released. * Beginning of the gplot module for use of gnuplot (www.gnuplot.info). * adding theses functions : - gplot and gplotM (multiple) to create gplots, - gplotCmd to append text to the plot command, - ?gp to list the gplots, - del_gplot to delete a gplot, - gplotAdd and gplotRepl (with replacement) to add values to plots, - gplotClear to clear a display panel. * The installation has been tested by Bruno Guilbert on a Fox board G20 (Debian debarm 2.6.38 with CPU Atmel AT91SAM9G20 based on ARM926EJ-S) with the students TRSE2 of Ingesup-Paris : All information about the board at www.acmesystems.it. 2012-05-22 - Nife 0.317 is released. * Adding ndepth giving network stack depth using NetKey, * Definition of principles for Nife RPC (remote procedure call). * Adding netExec to execute a function on a remote Nife using NetKey. * The installation has been tested by Dr Alain Empain (ulg.ac.be) on Ubuntu Lucid 10.O4 (Linux 2.6.38-15 - x86_64) * The installation has been tested by Paul Bartoldi (unige.ch) on Ubuntu 12.O4 LTS (Linux 3.0.0-12 - x86_32) 2012-05-11 - Nife 0.315 is released. * Beginning of distributed systems tools elaborated with Thomas Pabst : - automatic evaluation of the dt values at network connection, - adding netDt> to get the clock difference value beetween "network" and Nife system. * The installation has been tested on Debian Wheezy Testing (Linux 3.2.0-2 - x86_32) 2012-05-04 - Nife 0.311 is released. * Modifying errors traps to get a better bug resolution. * The installation has been tested by Bernard Perrin (csem.ch) on MacOS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (Darwin Kernel Vers 10.8.0 - x86_32) 2012-03-16 - Nife 0.307 is released. * Adding auto-convergent loop : do ... loop * Adding standards loop : do ... +loop * Possibility to test the loop level and use indexes I, J and K. * Adding del_ofunc to delete, by name, the oldest function, * Adding del_afunc to delete all functions beginning by a prefix, * Adding "exec to execute a user function giving her name on the character stack. * Adding "Var to create a variable giving her name on the character stack. * Rename functions sub[] in []-sub and *sub[] in *[]-sub to adopt a more logical notation. 2012-03-08 - Nife 0.303 is released. * This release is specially dedicated to my wife Christine. * Now you can use nife with redirection or pîpe : nife < fic.nif or cat fic.nif | nife Thank you to Denis Bodor for the idea ! 2012-02-22 - Nife 0.302 is released. * Christophe Ondrejec has validate the site nife-project.org * Updating README, NEWS and all informations files. * The installation has been tested on : - Debian Lenny (Linux 2.6.26-2 - x86_32) - Debian Squeeze (Linux 2.6.32-5 - x86_64) - Mac OS X (Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1 - x86_32) - Open BSD (Version 5.0 GENERIC#43 - x86_32) - Solaris 11 (SunOS v 5.11 - x86_32) - Fedora Core 15 (Linux 2.6.38-6 - x86_32) - Open Suze 12.1 (Linux 3.1.0-1 - x86_64) * Adding a benchmark test. 2012-02-13 - Nife 0.300 is released (internal). * Upgrading for working on both 32 or 64 bits. * Upgrading SCS (Sister Chip Signature) to accept data from machine differents on code or addresses but using compatible datas. * Integration of the GNU Autotools to generate the packages. 2011-11-13 - Nife 0.212 is released. * Network tools with STSP (stack to stack protocol) v0.5 : ie WITH ScS (Sister chip signature) v 1. * correction of function []trot. * new function []transp to transpose matrix. 2011-11-09 - Nife 0.209 is released. * Network tools with STSP (stack to stack protocol) v.0 : ie without ScS (Sister chip signature). 2011-10-31 - Nife 0.204 is released. 2011-10-26 - Nife 0.200 is released. 2011-09-18 - Nife 0.113 the first public release on Sourceforge.net.