- Component-Pascal Collection & BlackBox 1.6

From: Campbell, Robert D (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh) <"Campbell,>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 08:40:49 +0100

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Hello Helmut, all

I have just tried to install BlackBox 1.6.

Firstly I was very pleased to be told that Oms are still actively involved in supporting BlackBox.

Some of the changes are interesting, in particular the lack of backwards compatibility. While it is a problem in the short term it seems to be necessary to make progress.

An example is the need to recompile everything to avoid the binary consistency checking problem. Gérard prototyped a solution to this problem, but the need to recompile everything meant that we did not post it to CPC - it would be inconvenient if half the community was incompatible with the rest. However now that Oms are making a new format a 'standard', the benefit outweighs the inconvenience.

Recompiling everything is easy for me as I maintain a full global CompileList.
However an early entry is CpcMenus, which does not compile as it needs KERNEL32.

So to be Version 1.6 compatible we need to update several (many ?) of the Cpc contributions, which will probably not happen in just a few days.

How do we do that? I guess we (the whole BBox community) need to create lists of which packages are 1.6 compatible, which are not, and to start work on updating those that are not. Maybe we will need to have two versions of some packages;
1.5 versions & 1.6 versions. I suspect that there may be dependencies in that work on some packages can not start until other packages are already converted. (As an example I do not want to spend time working in the new environment without CpcMenus when I can use my existing 1.5 environment.)


I also notice that this new release is feature complete. I, for one, would have liked some discussion in the community about potential new/changed features that could be included in a new official release. I realise that there has to be a compromise between no changes, and a vast array of badly engineered, unreliable, inconsistent frills contributed by well meaning individuals. But have we got the balance right? If we had known a new release was imminent could we have been organised enough to filter out a small set of valuable changes, reviewed them for consistency of style and quality of implementation, than 'given' them to Oms for inclusion in the standard release?


A final question: I have given 1.6 a very brief try and want to go back to 1.5 as I have some urgent work to do. But all my files are now associated with the 'wrong' BlackBox. Is there some convenient way of switching between the two environments without confusing the Registry?

Regards

Robert

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