[Xitami-Dev] How to build Xitami on Linux

[Pieter Hintjens]

On 07/04/2005 12:26 pm, Rafael Cano P=E9rez wrote:

>  Pieter, when will we have access to the new SMT??

Well, it's a long story.  We've been doing a *lot* of code generation these=
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last years, developing GSL and frameworks around that.  We now write our C=
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code using a kind of XML class language called iCL (iMatix Class Language).=
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SMT (now in version 4.2) is built on that.  We don't use Libero anymore, bu=
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XML-based state machine designs. =20

If you have looked at Boom, you will see where we were with this technology=
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about 2 years ago.  It's improved a lot since then.  It's become very meta,=
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with code generators building code generators, and so on.  Software nanotec=
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kind of.

The result is something called "Base/2" (we dropped the unfortunate "Reali"=
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prefix).

Base/2 is still being developed, quite aggressively, since we are using it =
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a large custom project.  By the end of this year we hope to have rewritten=
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everything in the old realibase (Base/1) that we still use - boom, gsl, etc=
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SFL is being partly replaced by the Apache Runtime, partly rewritten as iCL=
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classes.  Htmlpp and Libero will be retired.

At that stage we will have the tools we need to do a refresh of Xitami.  Pa=
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of what we're making may possibly include an HTTP server, which would look=
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remarkably like Xitami, rewritten from the ground up.

So the planning for releasing the new Base/2, which will include SMT, GSL,=
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iCL, etc. is around the end of this year.

If you really want a version before then, ask me and we can arrange somethi=
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Base/2 is GPL'd with a commercial opt-out as usual.

=2DPieter Hintjens
iMatix Corporation