News

5.9.3-RELEASE: Runtime class definition

2013-05-22T10:16:42+02:00

The XP Group is proud to announce the immediate availability of the fourth release in the 5.9 series, version 5.9.3. This small release changes the runtime class definition functionality ClassLoader::defineClass() and ClassLoader::defineInterface() to load classes passed to them as parameters instead of raising exceptions, and thus adhere more to the "autoloading" scheme introduced with our dependency on PHP 5.3.0 and namespaces.

The full changelog is available in markdown format now.

Installation goes as always:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://xp-framework.net/setup/5.9.3 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

XP Language and compiler, 1.10.2-RELEASE

2013-05-20T16:44:22+02:00

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of XP Language and compiler, version 1.10.2. This release contains a bugfix for fatal error during compilation of the following:

  class Test {
    public static [:ChangeLogParser] $changeLogs= [
      'ChangeLog.md' : new MarkdownChangeLogParser(),
      'ChangeLog'    : new DefaultChangeLogParser()
    ];
  }

Upgrade using xpi upgrade xp-framework/xp-language.

5.8.14-RELEASE: Finalizing XP 5.8

2013-05-17T16:56:23+02:00

The XP group is proud to announce the immediate availability of XP Framework, version 5.8.14. This is the last planned release on the xp5_8 branch

It includes only two minor changes, a quickfix for issue #302 (Exception when not specifying a context class) and a changed to the REST routing mechanism to allow any character in path segments (see pull request #288).

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.14 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

XP Release procedure

2013-05-16T18:33:31+02:00

After introducing the new build system a while ago, we've produced quite a number of releases already. Time for some documentation, now that we know the procedure works as expected.

The XP Wiki now contains a step by step howto for creating releases and release candidates. Here it is!

5.9.2-RELEASE

2013-05-16T16:17:29+02:00

The XP Framework group is proud to announce the immediate availability of the 5.9.2-RELEASE. In this release we focussed on refactoring the test suite to use the new unittest parametrization features introduced in 5.9.1 and generally added some fine tuning to the code.

5.9.2 is out and ready to be used:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://xp-framework.net/setup/5.9.2 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Requires: Any PHP version between 5.3.0 and 5.5.0 - Enjoy!

ChangeLog formatting

2013-05-15T14:50:37+02:00

Scope of Change
ChangeLog formatting will be changed to use markdown syntax, and the filename will be changed to ChangeLog.md.

Rationale
Easier viewing on GitHub.

Read the full RFC here

The new util.Objects class

2013-05-14T23:39:49+02:00

While going through the "FIXME" comments in the XP Framework's codebase, I discovered a code duplication of the _compare() method from the TestCase class. This method was responsible for comparing two values of any type and returning TRUE if they're equal. Further research revealed quite a bit of places in the XP Framework this kind of helper method existed.

By introducing util.Objects::equal(var $a, var $b) and refactoring the existing code to reuse this new method, we reduced duplication and of course also potential for bugs.

XP Language and compiler, 1.10.1-RELEASE: xcc -e

2013-05-14T23:00:39+02:00

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of XP Language and compiler, version 1.10.1. This release includes:

RFC #0249: Exponentiation operator. See here for details.
RFC #0238: xcc -e and xcc -w (command line code evaluation). See here for details.
Various bugfixes for PHP syntax
A command line option -q which will show only compilation errors

Upgrading / installation is done via XPI.

XP Language and compiler, 1.10.0-RELEASE: Compact syntax

2013-05-12T19:13:26+02:00

After the release candidate two days ago, the XP group is proud to announce the immediate availability of the XP Language and compiler, version 1.10.0. This release includes:

Compact method, assignment and fluent interface syntax (the implementations of RFC #0240, #0241 and #0252. For details, see here
A dependency on XP 5.9.1 due to the usage of parameterized unittests. See the release announcement
Bugfixes for errors resolving abstract enums, problems with PHP 5.3

Furthermore, the complete code base has been converted to PHP 5.3 namespaces and the new coding standards.

Upgrading / installation is done via XPI. Enjoy

RFC #0238: xcc -e

2013-05-12T15:58:48+02:00

Scope of Change
In conjunction with xp -e and unittest -e, this RFC proposes to add xcc -e.

Rationale
Support what both of the other runners already do, evaluate sourcecode directly as the fastest way to discover "what something does".

Read the full RFC here

RFC #0250: Static import syntax change

2013-05-12T15:46:55+02:00

Scope of Change
The XP language's static import syntax will be changed to be consistent with static member access and use the double colon operator ::

Rationale
Consistency

Read the full RFC here

RFC #0249: Exponentiation operator (XP Language)

2013-05-12T14:56:17+02:00

Scope of Change
A new operator for exponentiation will be added and will replace the pow() function.

Rationale
Better transportability to any platform.

Read the full RFC here

5.9.1-RELEASE: Unittest parameterization, generics fixes

2013-05-10T19:47:30+02:00

Roughly a week after releasing 5.9.0, we're already bumping the version to 5.9.1. This is due to the fact that RFC #0267 - Unittest parameterization, which we're now including, was opened after the feature freeze we announced with the availability of 5.9.0RC7. We're also including a series of fixes (and quite a bit of tests accompanying them) for generics.

Long story short, here we are, 5.9.1 is out and ready to be used:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://xp-framework.net/setup/5.9.1 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Requires: Any PHP version between 5.3.0 and 5.5.0, full ChangeLog here - Enjoy!

XP Language and compiler, 1.10.0RC1: Compact syntax

2013-05-10T11:57:10+02:00

After releasing version 1.9.0 last week, we've finally pushed forward the long-planned "compact syntax" feature which allows you to write value objects more concisely.

  public class Person {
    protected string $name;
  
    public __construct($this.name) { }
    public void setName($this.name) { }
    public this withName($this.name) { }
    public string getName() -> $this.name;
  }

For details, see this pull request.

Upgrading / installation is done via XPI.