Submitted by “Eiffel Software today announced that the latest version of its cross-platform IDE EiffelStudio is now available under dual licensing, enabling users to choose between a license for commercial development and a license for open source development. Eiffel Software’s dual licensing model is based on the principle of fair exchange. Users who write commercial proprietary software must purchase the corresponding licenses and may freely choose how to distribute their software. Users who donate their source code to the open source community can use the open source version and must distribute their software under the same license.” The sourcecode is available via SVN and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/ for more information.
I know Wings3D is done in Erlang which is a pretty nice modeler. Eiffel seems very visual based with ‘Design by Contract’ and ‘fair exchange’ seems nice too. Yummy :-9
Frankly, I think this is the future of free software.
You know someone’s going to crack a joke about the future of free software and the comparative success of niche products to mainstream ones now.
Frankly, I think this is the future of free software.
As far as development tools and frameworks go, it certainly looks like it.
He (Betrand Meyer) announced it this morning at ETH during the first lecture. The fun part: our semester project will be to improve EiffelStudio. Last year, they could program some games…
This is a good news for the Eiffel language, even when we have a good (and totally? ‘free’) alternative in SmartEiffel.
They STILL don’t have decent documentation!
I tried a while ago to learn Eiffel, but it quickly got bogged down when I discovered the uselessness of the ‘tutorial’ to actually learn Eiffel.
The tutorial
http://docs.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/general/guided_tour/language/in…
doesn’t help at all. It simply rushes you past a lot of the features.
I didn’t manage to find anything elsewhere on the net either, and 2 of the biggest bookstores in Holland don’t have anything on Eiffel. Ordering online is the only solution, and just before I did just that I decided there were languages that were easier to get working with.
Just thought I’d mention it. Shame really, but at least it’s available.
Nice to see Eiffel being mentioned. From what I’ve read about it in the many years since I first started using OO (with Smalltalk), it’s always been something that I wanted to try. I’ll probably install it on XP now though, as I don’t really want X11 on my Mac.