As a perfect companion to the stable and mature qooxdoo 0.6.6 released today, an early alpha release is made available to demonstrate and test the new OO features planned for 0.7.

In a previous post those exciting new OO features have been announced. Also, preliminary documentation of the new features has been given:

• As a starting point, a summary of the current class declaration is available that also shows some of its shortcomings.
• Details about the proposed class declaration for qooxdoo 0.7 are given in a separate article.
• For a quick overview a comparison of changes between 0.6.x and 0.7 wraps up the proposed features.

Well, that is all theory.

Given this full-featured alpha release, all interested users are now able to not only get a first impression, but to actually try out all the proposed new features themselves. Most of the proposed OO features are implemented and it is the perfect time to get the communities feedback.

As the ultimate real-life check it would be great if users would actually migrate their existing applications to 0.7-alpha1. Of course, this should be done strictly separated from any production environment of the existing code. Such a copy of custom application code could be upgraded for the alpha release by using the well-known migration scripts. A detailed migration tutorial to get existing applications to run under 0.7-alpha1 will follow in the next couple of days.

Any feedback is appreciated!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the SDK version available at Sourceforge contains a typo. Affected is only the SDK archive. Please apply the provided patch after unpacking the SDk archive. It is not possible to replace the archives served by the SF mirrors. Sorry for any inconvenience!

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