CodeSnip Blog

As promised a few days ago CodeSnip v4.16.0 has just been released. You can download it from GitHub or SourceForge . This version removes all dependencies on delphidabbler.com and the web services it provides. The web services are due to cease operating sometime between 12th and 15th June 2020. delphidabbler.com will continue on a different server with reduced content and functionality. For full details of changes see the change log . The source code can be downloaded or cloned from the delphidabbler/codesnip Git repository on GitHUb. IMPORTANT: All current users are strongly advised to update as soon as possible. Quite an important chunk of functionality in v4.15.1 and earlier depends on the web services and will stop working when the old website and web services go away.

Just a quick update to say that CodeSnip v4.16.0 is nearing completion. I'm aiming to release it on 2nd June, barring last minute gotchas. Downloads will be available from both GitHub and SourceForge . The new release will be announced here first, so please check back often. Also keep an eye on one of the above download sites as the code will be available there first. There's a degree of urgency about getting v4.16 released. As I've mentioned in other posts, my current web server is due to close on 15 June and current versions of CodeSnip use that server to get database updates, to import from SWAG and to get news and update notifications. I've found alternative ways for the Code Snippets Database and SWAG† to be delivered but they are incompatible with current CodeSnip versions: v4.16 and later will be required to handle them. † You can get more information about these revised arrangements by reading these blog posts: New Release of the DelphiDabbler Code ...

I've just released a "new" version of the 1997 SWAG collection of Pascal code and programming examples. The main reason is so that the soon-to-arrive v4.16 of CodeSnip will still be able to import SWAG snippets after the old web server closes on 15 June. When that server goes the SWAG REST service that CodeSnip currently uses will go away. So, this is just in time. For more information please see the more detailed post on DelphiDabbler's Blog .

I had planned to get the forthcoming update to CodeSnip out into the wild by 14 May. Well, my laptop has other plans. It just died. And its my only development machine. Local repair shops are shut down under the corona virus lockdown, so repair is out of the question. So I'm researching suitable machines that can both run Delphi and my music production software. Could take a while! So I've put back the provisional release date to 31 May. It's got to get done before 15 June, cos that's when the current delphidabbler.com server closes down, which will break current versions of CodeSnip. And while we're talking about the web server there could  are problems with the planned move to a new host - this blog post  and this one explain further. Keep an eye on this blog and the delphidabbler/codesnip GitHub project.

In my previous post I said that a new version of the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Database would be released on GitHub as one of the prerequisites of releasing a new version of CodeSnip. Well the database has just been released as part of the delphidabbler/code-snippets project on GitHub. This is version 2.0. Here are a few details: The v2 database is not backwards compatible with the earlier versions. It has been revised to stand alone from the CodeSnip program in as much as the code is available to be accessed by other applications. There are no new snippets: the only change to the content is that the two string management categories have been merged into one. Why there were two is a long story to do with maintaining backward compatibility. License, copyright and version information is now included with the database. The snippets are now formally licensed under the MIT license. There's now just a revision of the SWAG database to finish before CodeSnip can be release...