version 0.8.8

web/download.txt

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 Here you can download the latest version of the Nimrod Compiler.
 Please choose your platform:
-* source-based installation: `<download/nimrod_0.8.6.zip>`_
-* installer for Windows XP/Vista (i386): `<download/nimrod_0.8.6.exe>`_
+* source-based installation: `<download/nimrod_0.8.8.zip>`_
+* installer for Windows XP/Vista (i386): `<download/nimrod_0.8.8.exe>`_
   (includes GCC and everything else you need)
 
 The source-based installation has been tested on these systems:

web/news.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 News
 ====
 
-2010-XX-XX Version 0.8.8 released
+2010-03-14 Version 0.8.8 released
 =================================
 
 Version 0.8.8 has been released! Get it `here <download.html>`_. 
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ Bugfixes
 - An overloadable symbol can now have the same name as an imported module.
 - Fixed a serious bug in ``strutils.cmpIgnoreCase``. 
 - Fixed ``unicode.toUTF8``. 
-- The compiler now rejects ``'\n'``. 
+- The compiler now rejects ``'\n'`` (use ``"\n"`` instead). 
 - ``times.getStartMilsecs()`` now works on Mac OS X.
 - Fixed a bug in ``pegs.match`` concerning start offsets.
+- Lots of other little bugfixes.
 
 
 Additions
@@ -57,9 +58,8 @@ Additions
   You can change your configuration file to use these.
 - Triple quoted strings allow for ``"`` in more contexts.
 - ``""`` within raw string literals stands for a single quotation mark.
-- More extensive subscript operator overloading. See 
-  `subscript overloading <manual.html#subscript-overloading>`_ for further
-  information.
+- Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out.
+- More extensive subscript operator overloading. (To be documented.)
 - The documentation generator supports the ``.. raw:: html`` directive.
 - The Pegs module supports back references via the notation ``$capture_index``. 
 
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility
 - The ``\w`` character class for pegs now includes the digits ``'0'..'9'``.
 - Many wrappers now do not contain redundant name prefixes (like ``GTK_``,
   ``lua``) anymore.
+- Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out.
 
 
 2009-12-21 Version 0.8.6 released

web/nimrod.ini

@@ -23,13 +23,15 @@ file: ticker
 [Documentation]
 doc: "endb;intern;apis;lib;manual;tut1;tut2;nimrodc;overview"
 pdf: "manual;lib;tut1;tut2;nimrodc"
-srcdoc: "system.nim;pure/os;pure/strutils;pure/regexprs;pure/math"
+srcdoc: "impure/graphics;pure/sockets"
+srcdoc: "system.nim;pure/os;pure/strutils;pure/re;pure/math"
 srcdoc: "pure/complex;pure/times;pure/osproc;pure/pegs;pure/dynlib"
 srcdoc: "pure/parseopt;pure/hashes;pure/strtabs;pure/lexbase"
 srcdoc: "pure/parsecfg;pure/parsexml;pure/parsecsv;pure/parsesql"
 srcdoc: "pure/streams;pure/terminal;pure/cgi;impure/web;pure/unicode"
 srcdoc: "impure/zipfiles;pure/xmlgen;pure/macros;pure/parseutils;pure/browsers"
-srcdoc: "impure/db_postgres;impure/db_mysql;pure/httpserver;pure/httpclient"
+srcdoc: "impure/db_postgres;impure/db_mysql;impure/db_sqlite"
+srcdoc: "pure/httpserver;pure/httpclient"
 srcdoc: "pure/ropes;pure/unidecode/unidecode;pure/xmldom;pure/xmldomparser"
 srcdoc: "pure/xmlparser;pure/htmlparser;pure/xmltree;pure/colors;impure/graphics"
 

web/question.txt

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ flexibility for speed. You get both.
 Why is it named Nimrod?
 -----------------------
 You have to find out for yourself. If you don't find a tongue-in-cheek 
-interpretation you have to look harder.
+interpretation you will have to look harder.
 
 
 How is Nimrod licensed?
@@ -44,15 +44,17 @@ How stable is Nimrod?
 
 The compiler is in development and some important features are still missing. 
 However, the compiler is quite stable already: It is able to compile itself 
-and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, slight 
-incompabilities with older versions of the compiler may be introduced.
+and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, 
+incompabilities with older versions of the compiler will be introduced. The 
+semantic details of overloading, macros/templates/generics and iterators 
+and their interactions are subject to change.
 
 
 How fast is Nimrod?
 -------------------
 Benchmarks have not been ported yet and support for threads is missing. But in
-the worst case, you can get exactly the same performance as C if you decide to
-write as low-level Nimrod code as C requires you to do. That said the only
+the worst case, you can get exactly the same performance as in C if you decide 
+to write as low-level Nimrod code as C requires you to do. That said the only
 overhead Nimrod has over C is the GC which has been tuned for years (and is 
 significantly faster than the Boehm GC).
 

web/ticker.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+| `2010-03-14`:newsdate:
+| Nimrod version 0.8.8 has been released! 
+  Get it `here <./download.html>`_.
+
 | `2009-12-21`:newsdate:
 | Nimrod version 0.8.6 has been released! 
-  Get it `here <./download.html>`_.
 
 | `2009-10-21`:newsdate:
 | Nimrod version 0.8.2 has been released!