miniSphere 4.5.2
minisphere 4.5.2 is a maintenance release in the 4.5.x release series. This release adds support for the .mjs file extension for ES2015 modules and enhances transpile() behavior in Cell.
Changes in This Version
- Changes Cell
transpilemodule to use an automatic mode fortranspile().
.jsfiles are compiled as scripts (which is Sphere 1.x compatible), while
.mjsfiles are compiled as ES6 modules. This is in line with how Node.js
will eventually implement ES6 module support.
Installing in Windows
Simply download and run minisphereSetup-4.5.2.exe. The Inno Setup install wizard will walk you through the installation process.
Installing in Linux
For Ubuntu (14.04 and later), minisphere is available via personal package archive (PPA):
Installing from a PPA is easy. Simply open Terminal and run the following commands (you only need to do this once, Ubuntu will keep it updated automatically from then on):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fatcerberus/minispheresudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install minisphere
Users of Linux distributions other than Ubuntu will need to build the engine manually from the tarball (minisphere-4.5.2.tar.gz).