Final countdown

Open Quark Framework release 1.4.0-0 is almost ready - we're shooting for Wednesday or Thursday, after final documentation and testing.

This release is quite feature rich. Here is the "What's New" section from the upcoming release notes:

• The CAL Eclipse Plug-in is now open-sourced under the Eclipse Public License.
  
  
  
  • The CAL Eclipse Plug-in is a separate download, with its own release notes.
    
  • Some components of the plug-in are licensed under the BSD license of Open Quark (see the plug-in zip for details).
    
  
  
• New features in the CAL Eclipse Plug-in:
  
  
  
  • CAL Workspace view provides a categorized tree of all CAL entities in the workspace
    
  • CAL Outline view shows the CAL entities in a particular module

    
    

  • CAL metadata editing support
    
  • Auto-complete in the CAL editor
    
  • Rename refactoring
    
  • Organize imports refactoring
    
  • CAL Perspective
    
  • CAL branding plug-in
    
  
  
• CAL Eclipse Plug-in documentation:
  
  
  
  • New "Using CAL with Eclipse" document
    
  • New video "CAL Eclipse Plug-in Features"
    
  
  
• Lazy pattern matching: new CAL syntax to lazily unpack data constructors and records within a let expression.
  
• Improved readability of generated Java sources for understanding the Java code actually generated from CAL sources:
  
  
  
  • Java expression pretty printer, shorter un-desugared CAL identifier names, improved generated Java source file organization.
    
  
  
• CAL and the Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks
  
  
  
  • benchmarks and a document summarizing results on CAL performance for the Shootout benchmarks (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/)
    
  
  
• Various bug fixes, library enhancements and documentation updates