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.
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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.
• 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 ugly m4 is (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 with 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 O'TOP 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).

Changes from version 0.0.0.15 to 0.0.0.16

• In the LLL subproject: more code in the sources; redacted some O'TOP implementation ideas and began bibliographies for the O'TOP and i386 subprojects

Changes from version 0.0.0.16 to 0.0.0.17

• Quite a lot of new or modified Glossary definitions (all words in the waiting list were briefly described).
  Particularly, included ideas about tradition, as only recently fully understood, thanks to Hayek's last book. These ideas, now better understood and explained, will hopefully show that I (Faré) am not a fanatic.
  Also, words about the theory of information, or features such as persistence have been added or modified.
• In the HLL subproject, more explanations about the Semantics of the HLL.
• In the Review subproject, besides a few pointer modifications in the catalog pages, more explanations about the Features Tunes will provide.

Changes from version 0.0.0.17 to 0.0.0.18

• In the root project, completely reorganized the home page (many thanks to Patrick Premont !),
  added a copyright notice and a warning about copyright issues,
  split index.html from the Tunes root project.
• In the Review subproject, integrated corrections by Rainer about my broken english and general expression.
  Reorganization and small additions in the Languages page;
  particularly a link to the MISA project for a new language, with which we've had positive contacts.
• In the LLL subproject, firmly stated that the non-IO, non-meta words of ANS FORTH would serve as a basis to the LLL.

Changes from version 0.0.0.18 to 0.0.0.19

• Still more sources in the LLL subproject: the i386 version of the initial generic "kernel" compiles.
• Explained in the meta-translator subproject some isomorphisms between various programming paradigms.
• In the Glossary, modified some words, and gave a better translation of the quotation of Confucius by Hayek: "When words lose their meaning, men lose their freedom".
• As usual, still more enhancements to the Review subproject.

Changes from version 0.0.0.19 to 0.0.0.20

• Integrated the fine feedback from Cedric Ware.
• Wasted a lot of time on the i386 boot core for the LLL (and published a patch to bcc for this core to properly assemble). Now it can manage interruptions by reflecting them to real real-mode (and more generally, one can call real real-mode routines from protected mode).

Changes from version 0.0.0.20 to 0.0.0.25

• Version following .20 is called .25 because so much was changed or added that the patch is five times larger that is usually, and compares to the size of the full distribution.
• In the LLL/i386 subproject, wasted a lot of time again on the i386 boot core (lots of bugs removed, R86 seems to work but not V86, paging initialized, lots of m4 macros written and debugged).
• Began to write the LLL/OTOP subproject (Makefile/autoconfiguration support, m4 diversions and reverse diversions, threaded interpreter).
• Wrote a small article for the Migration subproject.
• Lots of minor changes and additions to the WWW pages and other documentation files, particularly the Review subproject
• As always, many additions to the Glossary.
• Because there is no more FTP site, a Files page was open (but not everything is actually on the repository).

Changes from version 0.0.0.25 to 0.0.0.27

• Version following .25 is called .27 because major changes are being done.
• In the LLL subproject, everything is being rewritten from the assembler+m4 combination (as86+m4 or GCC+m4) to a Scheme-based metaprogramming environment, with an interpreter for a core of the HLL.
  Exeunt dumb assemblers and preprocessors, obfuscated macros. Intrant reflectivity, full-fledged programming languages.
  The old asm+m4 code was deleted, but will be translated, and can still be found in the archive.
• The HLL project is being built from Scheme (also see Patrick Premont's).
• In the LLL/i386 subproject, an assembler is being written in Scheme (from a mix of the Win32Forth assembler, as86, and NASM), and the previous code being translated.
• As usual, lots of (minor) changes and additions to the WWW pages and other documentation files.

Changes from version 0.0.0.27 to 0.0.0.29

• Nathan Hawkins is taking over the LLL subproject (particularly LLL/i386), with help from jql and Eric Biederman. At the same time, Chris Harris will takeover the WWW pages, while Patrick Premont and I focus on the HLL.
• As usual a lot of small additions/modifications to the WWW pages.
• Significant additions were done to the LLL pages.
• Sources progressed in the HLL and OTOP subprojects.
• Several GC ideas were discussed; some prototypes were done and others are being done.

Expected soon on your WWW browsers !

• Reviews for FORTH, SELF, Agora...
• At least Part 1 & 2 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.
• Always new or enhanced Glossary definitions.

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