The Tunes project Change Log

When a change implies other changes (e.g. changes in an the subproject index when adding a subproject), only the primary change is reported.
Also, the mailing list being always evolving, and already indexed by date, its changes need not be reported here.

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Changes from version 0.0.0.8 to 0.0.0.9

• Created this very Changelog ;)
• Created the Migration subproject.
• Reformatted the list of Project Members, added Kodrin, and wrote a personal (Faré's) note about seeking maintainers.
• Translated the i386 boot sector from TASM into as86+M4

Changes from version 0.0.0.9 to 0.0.0.10

• Edited a bit more (and actually published): the Migration subproject.
• Modified the way the project is introduced in the home page, and reformatted the Identity FAQ in the home page,
• Included corrections about broken style and broken english, from CrabSalad (dstevens@bu.edu).
• Created a page for concrete examples about what Tunes must provide in real-life to help users, as that's what many people ask on IRC.
• Among these, began to publish an example about a CD database.
• On Jecel's suggestion, added Occam as a language to review. Still one more.
• Began to translate existing TASM code (boot loader) and macros into as86+m4 dialect (in the full distribution, it's in directory src/LLL/i386, files *.m4, BIOS/*.S). It's a real pain, and it shows how m4 is ugly (well, TASM was not pretty either, but its macro system was quite more readable, and consistent with the remaining of syntax). Perhaps I should have used macro4th instead ? Anyway, that's a good demonstration of what's wrong in existing computing systems.
• Modified the .Logrc files; removed the link from index.html to Tunes.html as it confused patch, and moved Tunes.html to index.html, to keep the address short.

Changes from version 0.0.0.10 to 0.0.0.11

• Created a Review subproject with its own subdirectory
• Modified slightly the Migration subproject
• Added words to the glossary: Utility, Expediency, Root, Super-user, liberty.
• wrote and annotated the lame "C" version of the sieve example in the HLL subproject.
• rewrote in m4 all the macros for structured programming from the TASM version, i.e. all that was difficult. (working __IF__,__THEN__,__ELSE__,__ENDIF__; any taker to implement __ELSEIF__ ???). m4 is powerful, but its syntax is horrible and limiting!
• I've written a README there in src/LLL/i386, and info files to describe what has already been done.

Changes from version 0.0.0.11 to 0.0.0.12

• Edited the Review subproject some more: Completely reformated it, and added many changes, the OS and Language Review pages supercede the old Related_Works page and HLL review page from the HLL subproject.
• finished translating and debugging all existing TASM code and macros to as86+m4. TUNES/i386 now boots and goes protected mode fine as a raw floppy, or with LILO, and even LOADLIN. Wow ! I even had to produce a bug fix to as86. Pphew !
• Began translating and completing the initial boot kernel and complementary modules. Erased the old TASM files.
• Largely edited the LLL, i386 and OTOP subprojects.
• Talked about the choice axiom in the HLL Semantics page.
• While writing the i386 boot module, I had to cope with our standard LLL Object Encoding, and talked about it in the Migration page.
• Modifiied and added new Glossary definitions. Particularly: Religion, Holy.
• The UI subproject is being transformed into an Interfaces subproject.

Changes from version 0.0.0.12 to 0.0.0.13

• Pointers added in the OS and Language Review pages.
• Fully debugged the i386 boot loader, and blown away its 28KB limit (not fully tested here).
• Began exploring a useful implementation idea: not waiting for the Tunes HLL, use the m4 preprocessor to have a one kernel source file that can specialize into multiple assembly source files for various CPUs, including the i386, ANSI C with or without GCC extensions on any CPU, etc.

Changes from version 0.0.0.13 to 0.0.0.14

• Lots more pointers added to the OS and Language pages of Review subproject.
• Tunes home page modified.
• More explicit answer to FAQ 1.3 on specific goals of Tunes.
• Minor modifications in lots of WWW pages.
• More code and substantial reorganization in the LLL sources.

Changes from version 0.0.0.14 to 0.0.0.15

• Modifications in many WWW pages, particularly the home page.
• In the Review subproject: still more pointers added to the OS and Language pages; wrote skeleton and draft of the CD Database example; made small enhancements to the Features page.
• In the LLL subproject: more code in the sources; redacted some implementation ideas (particularly, added something about multithreading).

Expected soon on your WWW browsers !

• Reviews for m4, and FORTH...
• At least Part II of the motivation article "Why a new OS ?" finished...
• A lot of examples about what Tunes will do for you, and examples in all subprojects, particularly the HLL...
• i386 boot code that actually does things, not just sits there.
• New or modified Glossary definitions. Particularly: Semantics Users, Security.

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