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Re: [aspectj-users] announcing abc 1.0.0

Hi again Oege,

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you guys have been doing and to ask if you have any download statistics to guage the interest in abc? I just thought it might be nice to blog something like "x number of downloads in one week" to let people know that things are pretty popular on the abc front .. of course, if things haven't yet picked up then that will have to wait but it all helps the cause to get as much attention on abc, AspectJ and AOP in general.

If you have those sorts of statistics I can blog that sort of thing to O'Reilly and the Javalobby - all keeps things fresh in the minds of the representative developer communities.

Cheers,

Russ

On 23 Oct 2004, at 10:22, Oege de Moor wrote:


Thanks for the supportive comments, Russ! I'd like to mention that
abc is not just based in the Computing Lab at Oxford; it is a joint
effort between McGill, Aarhus and Oxford.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Russell Miles wrote:

What a community! I was lucky enough to get hold of an early release of
the software myself and to its credit it worked beautifully against my
example code from the AspectJ Cookbook. Well done Ganesh and all the
guys in the computing lab!

We all now have an opportunity to work with the actual AspectJ language
itself, I don't know of any other languages that have such a benefit.
With this opportunity and Adrian's team carefully moving ajc forward I
think a door to a very bright future for AspectJ has been opened wide.

Russ
www.aspectjcookbook.com


Oege de Moor wrote:

We are pleased to announce the availability of abc 1.0.0,
an extensible, optimising compiler for the full AspectJ
language.

abc is available under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) from the following website:

 http://aspectbench.org

For developers, abc offers:
- alternative error messages
- fast code
- support through email lists
  and public bugzilla

For researchers, abc offers:
- an extensible frontend based
  on Polyglot
- an extensible backend based
  on Soot
- an ideal platform for experiments
  with new features and optimisations

This is the first public release of abc, and it fixes many
bugs in earlier pre-releases. It has much benefited from the
advice of the AspectJ language designers, in particular
Adrian Colyer, Erik Hilsdale, Jim Hugunin and Gregor Kiczales.
We are also grateful to the authors of Polyglot for their
assistance, in particular to Stephen Chong and Nate Nystrom.

Full credits for authorship of abc 1.0.0 itself can be found
on the above website.

There is a low traffic, moderated mailing list where future
updates of abc will be announced:

   abc-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To join this list, send an email to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe abc-announce' in the body.

Enjoy!

  The abc team.
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