As you may know from my earlier posts here in the blog or in our forums http://forum.arianesoft.ca, I am using a MacBook Pro with Parallels Desktop with two Virtual Machines (one XP and one Vista) to do my development.

As I am now supporting two versions 1.x and 2.0 for the PPL compiler/interpreter (same source codes), I needed a better way to sync the two folders on each VM. Before I was using Visual Studio 6 on the XP machine to do my development of the compiler/interpreter. Now I am using Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista machine for PPL 2.0’s compiler/interpreter.

What I decided to do is to share the PPL folder on the Vista machine with the XP machine. They can both run at the same time (without very little slowdowns, if any) and use one Folder that is shared between the two virtual machines.

For the PIDE, I don’t have this problem because they are two different projects, since the PIDE 2.0 has been rewritten from scratch.

So this is what I have been doing today as well as tweaking and polishing PPL 2.0 even more. I have added the ability to select multiple objects and edit the common properties and events that they share. This is very handy for more complex projects. I am tweaking the code generation process to make it more streamlined and less complex internally.

More news later this week about 2.0 and 1.53…