You now can download the Tycoon-2 system.
The Tycoon-2 distribution with binaries for Linux, Solaris, and Win32 is available as a single compressed archive. The current release is version 1.03. It can be downloaded
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Change history and earlier releases:
- Version 1.03, 04-Nov-2003:
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- Toplevel comment syntax is now the same as in class files.
toplevel commands are terminated by a question mark ("?"), not by a semicolon as before.
- Storing the supercomponent of each object is now optional. Turning it off reduces the store size by 15%. However, the store format is incompatible, so when switching this feature on or off, a recompile of the tvm and a bootstrap are required.
- Fixed a GC-related bug that caused crashes under Windows XP.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes allow message sends with wrong arity, confusing the tvm
- The windows port can now be compiled using the free borland c++ compiler.
- Version 1.02: (download tycoon2-102.tgz, 10.505.503 bytes):
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- STML pages work under Windows (cr/lf handled correctly in nsgmls output)
- Keyword parameters work as described in the tycoon-2 1.0 language report (optional, in arbitrary order, with default expressions, efficiently implemented in the tvm)
- The interactive toplevel now also uses the tycoon-2 1.0 syntax, with some changes in comment handling (semicolon marks end-of-input, so one line comments are not used, while docstrings are completely ignored). This should have removed the last traces of the old ("0.9") syntax.
- Performance patch for the typechecker: type operators are analyzed for co/contravariance
- Version 1.01: (download tycoon2-101.tgz, 10.015.138 bytes):
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- All tycoon class files use syntax 1.0. Toplevel and scripts still use 0.9 synax.
- Under UNIX, web server with dynamic pages (STML) runs out of the box if nsgmls is installed (package "sp" under Redhat Linux)
- Distribution includes emacs tl2 mode
- Various compilation options available through JAM
- bootstrap works out of the box
- reduced download size from 30MB to 10MB
- all sources are now managed on the STS Perforce server
