[maemo-developers] ANN: hop-1.9.0

[From: Manuel.Serrano at sophia.inria.fr]

Hop is a programming language designed for the Web 2.0. It is a
higher-order language for programming interactive web applications
such as web agendas, web galleries, music players, etc. Hop can be
viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits. HOP is
implemented as a Web broker, i.e., a Web server that may act
indifferently as a regular Web server or Web proxy.

HOP features:

    * a versatile Web server supporting HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1,
    * an optimizing native code compiler for server code,
    * an on-the-fly Javascript compiler for client code,
    * an extensive set of widgets for programming fancy and portable 
      Web GUIs,
    * a native multimedia support for enabling ubiquitous Web multimedia 
      applications.
    * fast WebDAV level 1 support,
    * an extensive set of libraries for the mail, calendars, databases, 
      Web technologies, ... 

HOP is available at:

  http://hop.inria.fr

A pre-compiled version for the N8x0 can be found at:

  ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Hop/hop_1.9.0_armel.deb

This depends on the Bigloo compiler whose .deb can be found at:

  ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/maemo/bigloo_3.1b_armel.deb


The release 1.9.0 is a major release. It highlights are:

   * new linguistic forms (e.g., "comet" server events).
 
   * new APIs (e.g., multimedia, cryptography, ...).

   * new implementations (e.g., new fast Web server scheduling, 
     new support for keep-alive connections, new compilation 
     techniques, ...).


Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.6):
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The release 1.8.6 is a minor release that fixes minor installation bugs.

    * Minor bug fixes.
      

Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.5):
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The release 1.8.5 is a minor release that fixes minor installation bugs.

    * It mostly contains fixes that enable packaging Hop is standard 
      Linux distributions.


Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.4):
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The release 1.8.4 is a minor release that fixes two important problems:

    1- Hz timeout was expressed in micro-seconds instead of 
       milli-seconds. Hence, synchronizations and installations where 
       frequently failing because of timeouts.

    2  Server events response text was not correct (although the 
       value of server events was).


It also adds a new feature to WEBLETS (the weblet in charge of making
weblets easily available on Web) which is now able to automatically generate
web pages.
    

Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.3):
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The release 1.8.3 is a minor release. It mostly fixes small glitches such as:

    * Eliminate multiple file authentications.
    * Bad support of inlined resources.
    * Broken proxy error messages.
    * ...

It also adds a new feature to WEBLETS (the weblet in charge of making
weblets easily available on Web) which is now able to automatically generate
web pages.
    

Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.0):
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    1- A new packaging system (Hz) that allows end users to
       run and install Hop programs with a single click.
    2- Support for MathML (with an extension that allows users to use 
       TeX syntax).
    3- Support for SVG (with an extension that allows users to inline
       SVG external images inside Hop documents).
    4- Pre-compiled JVM version is now fully compatible with the native
       version.


Announce of previous Hop release (1.7.0):
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    1- Fast WebDAV level 1 support.
    2- Various new APIs (such as audio support).
    3- Support for fast server events (server-to-client communications).


Announce of previous Hop release (1.6.0):
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    1- Support for history and bookmarking.
    2- MacOS X port (single-threaded).
 

Announce of previous Hop release (1.5.0):
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The version 1.5.0 improves the former version 1.4.0 in many directions.
The three major improvements are:

    1- Support all major browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE7, ...).
    2- Add new widgets.
    3- Improved authentication mechanisms.