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Re: Swarm 1.3.1 Available
From: |
Pietro Terna |
Subject: |
Re: Swarm 1.3.1 Available |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:35:56 +0200 |
Dear Marcus,
what a wonderful announce!
A practical matter: how can we order and pay for the CD-ROM?
Pietro
At 03.14 16/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>To the collectively evolving,
>
>The Swarm team at the Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce that
>Swarm 1.3.1 is ready. Swarm 1.3.1 is intended to be a stable reference.
>
>Significant new features in the release include:
>
> o A Swarm CD-ROM, formatted for use with Unix and Windows. Under
> Windows 95/NT, the GNU C compiler can be run directly off the CD,
> as can Emacs, the Bash shell, and Swarm demos. In addition, the
> Swarm CD-ROM includes Win32 executables all the necessary tools to
> build Swarm documentation from the Swarm source code and Swarmdocs
> SGML text (e.g. jade, TeX, netpbm, GhostScript, etc). The Swarm
> CD-ROM also includes binary installer packages for Debian 2.0,
> Redhat 5.1, and Solaris 2.5.1, archives of Swarm source code and
> underlying tools and libraries, as well as complete HTML
> documentation. About 550 megabytes of goodies.
>
> We'll snail-mail you one for $20 US, or pick one up at SFI for $10 US.
>
> o A simple animated schedule browser. The Mousetrap demonstration
> application includes code to exercise this widget.
>
> o Much more complete and robust widget snapshot features
> - Support for window managers using multiple virtual displays
> - Support > 8 bit-depth screen snapshots
>
> o EZBins are more colorful customizable.
> Thanks to Sven Thommesen!
>
> o New functions initSwarmApp and initSwarmAppArguments. These
> initialization functions allow a bug report address and
> application version number to be included in the standard help text.
>
> o Support for char, short, unsigned short, long, and unsigned long
> types in Message and Variable probes.
>
> o More complete bookkeeping and descriptive statistics for Zone.
>
> o Various autoconfiguration improvements:
> - Support for EGCS 1.1
> - New flag to configure, --with-xpmdir, for specifying use of a Xpm
> installation outside of the usual X11 tree.
> - Improved detection of link options for recording shared-library
> paths in a Swarm application.
>
>..and of course a pile of bug fixes.
>
>
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