Progress report #4

Written by Daniel Kochmański on 2016-12-02 12:00

Dear Community,

During this iteration I have continued to work on the tutorial, improving documentation, working on issues and assuring CLIM II specification compatibility.

Most notable change is that argument type in define-command is not evaluated (but if it is quoted it still works for backward compatibility reasons). I've also started some refactoring of the frames module implementation.

The tutorial work takes some time because I try to fix bugs when I encounter them to make the walkthrough as flawless as possible. While I'm not overly satisfied with the tutorial writing progress and its current shape, this work results in benefit of improving the code and the documentation.

The documentation chapter named "Demos and applications" has been updated to reflect the current state of the code base. Some additional clarifications about the pane order and pane names have been added to it. I've updated the website to include the external tutorials and include the Guided Tour in the Resources section. The manual has been updated as well.

The rest of the time was spent on peer review of the contributions, merging pull requests, development discussions, questions on IRC and other maintenance tasks.

Alessandro Serra has created a Raster Image Backend – a backend similar to PostScript , but having png as its output. See "Drawing Tests" in clim-examples and the chapter "Raster Image backend" in the Manual.

A detailed report is available at:

https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/static/documents/status-reports.org

If you have any questions, doubts or suggestions – please contact me either by email (daniel@turtleware.eu) or on IRC (my nick is jackdaniel ).

Sincerely yours,

Daniel Kochmański