Nife_v0/NEWS

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.