# Sather 1.3

Sather 1.3 is the Waikato University implementation of -

- Sather Compiler (including a very minor chamge to the dialect of the language (discussed in introductory notes)
- Sather Required Library. Notes on implementing other libraries are given here
- Sather Resources
- Auxiliary programs

which have been produced or are being developed here to produce a fully internationalised version of an implementation of the Sather 1.1 language. A brief introduction to this implementation is given here.

A beta (version 6) release of these is now (see note following) available. It can be downloaded as a zipped file. Note that all of this web site is contained in the doc directory of the distribution.

NOTES

1. There has been a major re-organisation of abstractions in the numeric section of the library to simplify the later addition of an ORDinal class if this is agreed - although this should not affect existing code (and, so far as could be tested, does not do so). Other changes have been cosmetic apart from a bug fix where an invalid file format for resource files caused pre-condition errors.

2. Documentation corrections and a few additions have been made. In particular the 'man' page has been given an HTML version for this distribution. A first (not yet completed) draft of a User Guide is now also included.

Before installing the distribution it is recommended that the user read the Caveats and Installation Notes. Once installed you should also read the Conversion notes if you are intending to convert existing code to use the new libraries.

Users wishing to port this implementation to another CPU or another operating system are recommended to read the notes on porting.

Comments or enquiries should be made to Keith Hopper . Page last modified: Monday, 19 February 2001. |