Extension of Apigen

Antoine Reilles defends his dissertation in Nancy using ATerms and extending ApiGen into GOM. See http://www.loria.fr/~reilles/papers/manuscrit.pdf (in French).

SDF developer from Norway

Karl Trygve Kalleberg has joined to help SDF. He has added a Java version of SGLR to the Subversion repository. This version is currently still in alpha status.

New developer

Arnold Lankamp is welcomed as a new full-time developer at CWI. He will be working on the ToolBus and ATerm infra-structure of The Meta-Environment.

New website

The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment is going 'Open Source'. The system has been released with an open source license ever since its first release in 2000. However, we now actively promote it as an open source project. The reasons are:

• Some components have reached a stability that requires only minor maintenance. This means that such components may be maintained easily since all the requirements are clear and fixed.
• More and more sub-components of the Meta-Environment are being used by other systems, and thus more programmers naturally help with the development effort.
• More and more users and systems use SDF for parsing.
• More and more users use ASF+SDF for their source code analysis or transformation tooling, which warrants an effort in documentation targeted at specific usage scenarios.

The following measures have been taken:

• A new website: http://www.meta-environment.org, http://www.asfsdf.org
• A large Documentation effort is just being started
• New programmers have been hired for Contributing

If you would like to contribute to either our documentation or our sources, please contact meta-devel-list@cwi.nl.

Build environment factored out

Martin Bravenboer from UU helped factoring out the build environment of all our packages. This means that the source code has become more portable, and that many portability and compilability issues can now be fixed in a single location.

New developer for ATerm library

Erik Scheffers from TU/e is welcomed as a new member of the development team. His first goals are code tuning the ATerm library for portability, incompatibility issues with the newest GCC versions, and some minor efficiency issues.

Meta-Environment 2.0, Release Candidate 1

We have put a release candidate online for beta testing version 2.0. See ReleaseNotes for important information.