Saturday, March 26, 2005

Version 1.1 of the Alice Programming System is available. New in this release:  Graphical User Interface The Interactive Toplevel now comes with an optional GUI that  includes a simple program editor.   First-class Compilation The library now enables safe runtime access to the compiler,  including a type-safe Lisp-style "eval" function.   Search Factory and Distributed Search A generic Search Factory enables programming of custom search     strategies for constraint programming, and includes a distributed     search engine.   Glade Interface Builder The new aliceglade tool allows creation of Gtk interfaces for Alice with the graphical Glade interface builder.   SQL Library A binding to the SQLite library is now included in the distribution.   XML Parser The distribution also includes a simple XML parser based on the libxml2 library.   Mac OS Port The system is now available for Mac OS X (without just-in-time  compilation).   Bug Fixes      Lots of bugs and problems fixed, particularly on Windows. 2:44:26 PM