Frontier
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A new Frontier: An Inscrutable Tangle of State Management
Previously: Frontier in the Terminal With a REPL By this point, the easy parts were mostly already over. Frontier was no longer a pile of old source to coax into compiling. It was running headless. It could load old databases. It had a new REPL so I could do basic command-line interactions, and more and more… Continue reading
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A new Frontier: Frontier in the Terminal With a REPL
Previously: Old databases are new again Why implement a REPL? And what the heck is a REPL anyway? Why should I care? As some remember, classic Frontier had the QuickScript Window: Type some UserTalk, click Run, get the result in a little output area. It was useful, and we used it. A lot! While working… Continue reading
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On Integrating Frontier and Source Code Control (SVN)
I posted some of my initial thinking on how to integrate source code control (SVN) with Frontier’s IDE over on the frontierkernel Yahoo! Group. I think this is going to be important if we want developers to take the project seriously, and contribute meaningful code, rather than just a patchwork of fixes and mini-features. I’ve… Continue reading