Hi all!
Having mastered... um... aquately learned... the skill of phone booth
stuffing, which was more an excercise in inter-mythical-species
relationship counseling than anything else, It was revealed unto
Galloc the number and nomenclature of the rest of the gauntlet to his
destiny. There would be three extensive trials ahead, and during each
one Galloc would add a companion to his party.
One, he must find the Hollow of Venturi, and learn there from a master
of the water pipe the art of mixing earth, air, fire, and water to
conjur real objects which do not make the sound "plink" and disappear
within a fortnight, leaving a nasty welt on your ass should you be so
unfortunate to have it in your back pocket at the time.
Two, he must travel to the land of the BOBBlts, where he would engage
in some sort of silly annual ritual contest to see who could talk
faster, him, or the current leader of the BOBBlts. This apparently
was how they chose their leaders, no jest.
Three, he must proceed to the wasteland, and fulfil the prophecy that
a "great renderer" would come to fill the land again with life.
Four...uh...Four, FOUR extensive trials. ONE the Hollow of Venturi,
TWO the BOBBlts, THTHRREEEE the prophecy, and FOUR!! He must Buf
the entire silverware collection of a monarch of great frame.
LibGAlloc Alpha 5 Release
(a.k.a. the "slightly less confusing than the last one" release)
Changes since the last release:
o Range manager added.
o Enhanced test code of support for various extensions in X target.
o Carb resource variant documented (including ROPs), defined, then
redocumented differently. (Trust docs over code in this area.)
o Tag lists explained in docs; change in usage of tag groups in
docs (but not yet implemented)
Download: ftp://ggi.sourceforge.net/pub/ggi/ftp/extensions/libgalloc.alpha5.tar.bz2
Latest Documentation should be available in the documentation section
of our GGI homepage as soon as our Webmaster has set it up.
TODO list:
Most work on LibGAlloc will be postponed until after LibGGI has undergone
another release cycle. Please concentrate on that for now. But, since
you must know...
Easily separable tasks, which can be done with little knowlege of
LibGAlloc itself, are:
1) 1d Range manager needs major rework. Actually what we need is a
2d range manager written from the ground up.
2) Upcoming "batchop" routines need to be made portably efficient, and
possibly also hand optimized.
3) Docs need improved SGML markup and sync with other docs (which may
imply a move from SGML to XML since that is where docbook is headed.)
4) Any work anyone does on KGI really helps us in the long run. Especially,
libkgi hasn't been taken very far.
There is a good amount of heavy lifting internal work, but you
would need to learn the guts for it. A good starter project is
to try to write a new target and ask us a lot of questions, and
then tell us how much OUR target code doesn't do anything like
what we say yours should :-).
Especially, an Xlib target (as opposed to X) would help us test
the abstractness of our abstractions. We need someone who has
plumbed the depths of Xlib et al, and lived to code again.
P.S. Stay tuned for the "maniac master plan", you'll love it. But,
we are not going to put it up for discussion/comment until it
there's an actual release schedule for LibGGI. In fact, we are
only mentioning it to make you quiver with antici.....
CU,
Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
