APQ

I'm glad to announce APQ 3.2 has been finally released.

This release introduces a few bug fixes and a brand new build system. But SSL support in both PostgreSQL and MySQL has been removed for the time being (the SSL capable files are distributed within the packages if you really need it).

APQ release 3.1 was huge. Several improvements in the build system... heck, it has been built from scratch! A brand new build system in bash, with several new features. The thing is, we've been too focused in cross compiling and no so much in other important tasks. But back on that later.

Other important feature implemented in 3.1 (thanks Daniel, once again) is support for SSL in both PostgreSQL and MySQL. This support is now being revised (an important API refactoring and normalization, as usual) and we are studding a unified API in APQ for SSL support so you can easily use SSL with any DB server.

Now, again with the build system; in 3.2 we started from ground up again. Using all we learned from 3.1 (Daniel did a great job there) and we came up with a simpler build system and this time our focus in supporting a wider range of architectures. So far we managed to get APQ.MySQL up and running on Sabayon Linux, FreeBSD and for the first time in a long time MacOS X.

The release date is still TBA, but we are making our best in putting together a nice set of tools for our folks Ada lovers to work. :)

The system "in si" possesses the germen of multi-arch/multi-lib and cross-compiling :-)
For the guys using gnat-gps will pleasent notice , when importing the project file installed in install
part, appear 3 enviroment variables. combining this environment variables made possible change of
source, ali , libs etc on the fly :-)

After a long delay we now have a working ciabot in your #kow-framework freenode channel.

yey! :)

We are moving from gnatmake and makefiles to gprbuild.

The building command will still be called by scripts (maybe even Makefile scripts) but the compilation of both C and Ada sources will be entirely handled by the gprbuild command.

This means all database clients will have only one gpr file and it also means we will be reviewing all of our gpr files so expect some changes. :)

We hope it's going to be all for the best.

Yay, folks!

Finally I've put all bits together and have managed to release APQ 3.0 and KOW Framework 1.0b.

I'll write the release notes in a while.... but if you want to you can already download the files from the redmine pages or from http://www.kow.com.br/releases

A gentoo overlay is available at git://kow.com.br/packages/gentoo-overlay.git.

Notice not all KOW Framework modules has been released, only the ones that have matured most. kowplug, kowlog kowdist and kowdb haven't been included in this release.

Regards,

Hey there!

I have really exciting news (at least they are exciting for me). I've been reviewing all the Makefiles in the framework and I've noticed we wasn't using almost anything it has to offer.

As I have had some nasty issues with writing ebuilds for our Gentoo overlay (which will play nice with gnat eselect module) and so I decided to take this review a little further and I've created a generic Makefile that - at least for now - is working really nice.

Anyways, I'm gonna post more news soon as I'm working on the APQ 3.0 stable release and the KOW Framework 1.0 beta 1 release also. I'm really excited about all of this! :)