EiffelStudio 6.4 Release Candidate available

[Emmanuel Stapf]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate of EiffelStudio
6.4. You can get it from http://dev.eiffel.com/downloads (or direct link from
http://s.eiffel.com/studio64).

The exhaustive list of changes is available at:
http://dev.eiffel.com/EiffelStudio_6.4_Releases

and the release notes at:
http://doc.eiffel.com/book/eiffelstudio/release-notes-eiffelstudio-64

Happy Eiffeling,
Regards,
Manu

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[Thomas Beale-3]

Emmanuel Stapf [ES] wrote:
 >
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate of
EiffelStudio
 > 6.4. You can get it from http://dev.eiffel.com/downloads (or direct
link from
 > http://s.eiffel.com/studio64).
 >
 > The exhaustive list of changes is available at:
 > http://dev.eiffel.com/EiffelStudio_6.4_Releases
 >
 > and the release notes at:
 > http://doc.eiffel.com/book/eiffelstudio/release-notes-eiffelstudio-64
 >
 > Happy Eiffeling,
 > Regards,
 > Manu


I just downloaded the .7z archive, but there is no installer there; how
is one supposed to install it (i.e. correctly update the registry etc).
I was hoping there was a good reason to avoid downloading the .msi at
twice the size!



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[Emmanuel Stapf]

> I just downloaded the .7z archive, but there is no installer there; how
> is one supposed to install it (i.e. correctly update the registry etc).
> I was hoping there was a good reason to avoid downloading the .msi at
> twice the size!

There is also the MSI available for download which provides the installer.

Manu

[Peter Gummer-2]

Emmanuel Stapf [ES] wrote:
>> I just downloaded the .7z archive, but there is no installer there ...
> There is also the MSI available for download which provides the installer.
>  

What's the point of the .7z file, if it doesn't do the installation?

- Peter Gummer

[Emmanuel Stapf]

> What's the point of the .7z file, if it doesn't do the installation?

EiffelStudio on Windows is very similar to its Unix counterpart. Thus to have
EiffelStudio running on this platform, you only need to set the environment
variables ISE_EIFFEL, ISE_PLATFORM and ISE_C_COMPILER. So the .7z package is
basically the same kind of package as the Unix .bz2 packages.

Practically, most of our early adopters use the .7z package, because it is very
fast to install/remove intermediate releases.

MSI is great when you do not know how to install things and this is why the .7z
are not offered as downloads on http://www.eiffel.com since the later require some
manual settings.

Hope this helps,
Regards,
Manu