Inform release 4U65

Release date: 2007-05-07 12:00:00

Description of this release

Build 4U65 once again fixes all bugs reported up to 22 April, but in fact few were found in 4S08; and it removes a hole in the type-checking system, to do with phrases to make decisions, but this will have affected few users. The main aim is an across-the-board reform of how actions are handled and implemented in Inform. Proposals (6.33), (6.35), (6.37) and (6.39) from the January 2007 consultation document are all carried through. It is now much easier to create actions which work equally for all actors, and which need a complicated interaction of rules to work.

Build 4U67, for Mac OS X only, is identical to 4U65 except for the OS X user interface, in which the secondary controls in the various different panels have been harmonised into new-style bar icons. (In addition, new forward and back arrows provide the long-requested "browser-style history buttons".) We are releasing this now rather than waiting because it also fixes the minor but annoying bug to do with selecting detail pages in the Actions index (see the 4U65 release notes).

The change log can be browsed here.

This is no longer the current build. Almost all users should look for the latest one. Old builds like this are unsupported, and are kept only for the benefit of people who need exactly to recreate the system as it stood in the past, perhaps to replicate an old Inform project.

I7_4U67_OSX.zip

Inform for Mac OS X
	Universal Binary for Macs running Tiger 10.4.3 or later, including Leopard 10.5. (Panther 10.3.9 is unsupported, but may work.) Your browser may automatically unzip the app once downloaded: if not, double-click the .zip file by hand. Either way, you should see the Inform application, Inform.app. Simply drag this to the computer’s Applications folder, or wherever else you like. To uninstall: Drag the application to the trash.

I7_4U65_Windows.exe

PC running Windows 95 or later
	(For Windows 95 and 98, Internet Explorer 5.0 or later must also be installed.) Click the link to download I7_5U92_Windows.exe (about 3.5 MB), and save it to your hard drive. Double click on the downloaded file to start installation. For most users the default install parameters are what is required, so just keep clicking "Next" until the install has completed. An entry for "Inform 7" will appear in the Start Menu, from which Inform can be run. To uninstall: Go to "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel, select "Inform 7" and click on "Remove".

I7_4U65_Linux_all.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for general Linux architectures
	(For the following six architectures: i386, x86_64, armv5tel, ppc, s390, s390x.) CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.

I7_4U65_Linux_i386.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for Linux on i386 architecture
	CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.

I7_4U65_SunOS_i86pc.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for Solaris 10
	(For Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on x86.) CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.

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