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The CVS tree is now hosted at SourceForge. People have asked for (anonymous) access to CVS. This wasn't possible because the CVS server was located inside our university and not visible from outside. This has now changed, the sources can be retrieved from the project page at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/evolvica. In addition the SF system allows bug tracking which should be used now for submitting bug reports. The SF forum feature will not be used, so everything related to forum discussions will stay as it is (or stay at its current place).
Version 0.6.3 is ready for download. Again, this is only a minor bug fix release. Mirroring of operators in the GUI didn't work.
Another small update: 0.6.2. This version includes a small fix in the UI (child properties of newly created beans were not shown correctly) and the introduction of termination conditions that can be linked to each other (via logical AND and OR). This was a feature request, so here it is ... Please consult the updated section in the manual to find out how to use them.
A new version 0.6.1 has been posted. This release contains two serious fixes for bugs that have been reported by users. The internal handling of URIs was incorrect, which caused problems when the path to the project directory contained spaces or other special characters. The second fix is related to operator creation/loading. It was impossible to create operators in packages with more than one segment in their package name. Both issues should be fixed now.
Nearly four weeks of holidays (without telephone, internet etc. ;-)) and everything collapses. I returned to my office today only to find out that the FTP server of the university, which hosts the stand-alone versions of Evolvica, crashed on May 6th. The harddisk did some weird (and non-reparable) things and the admin wrote that all data from the server went to Nirwana. The server itself has been repaired very quickly, but I was not able to restore all the data while being in the middle of nowhere (to be more exact: somewhere in the Scottish highlands). But now everything is fixed and all the downloads are available again. Sorry for any inconvinience this accident may have caused to you. Hopefully this will not happen again (or at least not while I'm only holidays :-)).
It took quite some time, but finally version 0.6.0 is out. Read about the new things in the history section of this site. Please note: from beginning of may until around 25th of may you won't get any support, because in this time I am out of the university. You can send emails but don't expect to have them answered before end of may.
News concerning the website: we now have a forum. The Evolvica website moved to a new server
(with PHP support) and result is the forum. The mailing list will stay where it is, but it will
only be used for announcements. Before being able to post messages to the forum you need to
register. Sorry for that, but this is to keep people out of mischief. By doing it this way hopefully
only serious messages will find their way to the board. However the messages on the forum can be
read and searched without having to register.
The development itself has slowed down because of a serious lack of time. Therefore: any ideas for
contribution are welcome!
Several people have asked for a manual for printing. Now finally it's ready for reading (and printing, of course). You can find the link on the left side of this page.
Version 0.5.3 released. Actually this version should bring a new navigator view and some
other improvements, but ... The Unix versions of 0.5.2 had a serious bug (actually two bugs)
which caused trouble when creating algorithms making Evolvica showing messages like "Unable
to create edit part". The bug was related to the creation of URIs (which are internally used
for storing paths and locations).
All users of the Unix versions will have to update, in contrast Windows users don't need this
update, because the bug only affected Unix users (and this version does not bring any new
functionality beside the fix).
The Unix versions of Evolvica seem to be broken. Until this issue has been resolved the downloads are not available any longer. However the windows version does not seem to have that issue and works. Stay tuned for updates...
Version 0.5.2 has been released. This version brings a new operator editor that allows editing of the source code and the descriptor information concurrently. As a sideeffect a default descriptor will be created for each operator that is written.
This wednesday brings a new release: 0.5.1. As you can see in the version number change
there's not so much new. The most important change is the replacement of the old properties
view by a new attributes view that allows (finally!) editing of array properties. In addition
the save format for algorithms has changed. This version will read the old format, but will
always save the new format. The change had to done because of the fact that array properties
can now be edited.
There are several other small changes, but none of them should tangle a user somehow.
Version 0.5.0 has been released. There are not so many new features but several internal
changes have been made to justify the jump in the minor version. The changes in brief:
- The descriptor information is now stored in separate XML files, there's no need to attach
descriptor information to the operator via the constructor. The descriptor files can be
created with a graphical editor.
- Arrays of primitives can now be entered directly in the property sheet.
- Non-trivial properties can now be set to NULL.
Along with these things several issues have been fixed that made the prior version not
really useable.
The first public version of Evolvica has been released. On the download page you can find
versions for Linux, Solaris and Windows. Please note that the UNIX versions are untested at the moment.
In addition to the release there's an update to the webpage: now there's a mailing list available.
The list will be used for announcements and discussion about Evolvica.
The developer manual is ready for reading.
The user manual has been made public.
The first public version of Evolvica is now feature complete. But there are still some bugs to be fixed and the documentation must be written. You can expect a first release in the beginning of july.
The domain evolvica.org has been registered and the website is now up & running :-).