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Announcement: Release of Gambas 2.0 RC1 (pre-release text)
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07 Nov 2007 |
For more information on GAMBAS, it's author and the ideas behind the product, please read the introduction. Below you can see a screen shot of the Gambas IDE for Linux.
Gambas is an Open Source Rapid Application Development environment for Linux which is based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™. Note however that GAMBAS is not a VB clone and will not run VB code, it is an original Linux Application.
With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any languages, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, and so on.
If you've used and like visual Basic, Delphi or Kylix, Gambas is definitely the package for you. Take a look at the Getting Started page to see where to go next.
Release of Gambas 2.0 RC1
The internal version number for this release is 1.9.91, however this is being tagged as 2.0 RC1. There are many changes and fixes to read the change log carefully, if you've not been keeping up with SVN, be aware that this release could easily break all of your existing applications. Be aware before you upgrade!
Website Revamp
This was sparked by Benoît adding a little colour to the existing website, I guess once changes start, why stop! The system is now running on a Content Management System called Plone which should hopefully provide a platform which will allow more people get involved in contributing to the project .. you never know, a little bit of extra flashyness might even attract some corporate sponsorship!
Gambas 1.9.50 Released
The other main changes are:
- Support for autotools packages of Gambas projects.
- Some new examples.
- A new property that makes the running program a daemon.
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Important bug fixes in the database drivers and the gb.net.smtp components.
- The enhanced standard dialogs were moved from gb.form to their own gb.form.dialog component so that they are optional.
See the ChangeLog for more details and bug fixes.
The GAMBAS Linux IDE provides a robust, high quality design and implementation environment which is way ahead of most other Linux IDE's and the integral debugger is second to none. For those of us who have tried the likes of Mono only to be overwhelmed by complexity and instability, but who need a comprehensive visual object oriented RAD environment, the Gambas IDE currently has no competition.
Gambas Dev 1.9.91 (Release candidate)
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