Shall we start the process of putting together a new OpenDX release? Seems like about the right time. It sounds like the Lesstif guys are going to roll a new release very soon; I agree that it'd be nice to hold off the release until after that, but we can go ahead and get the process going. If the Lesstif release is timely we can follow it out with the real release.
Pete tells me he has successfully built the current CVS contents on AIX, SGI, Linux, and Dec. He's had troubles with the UI on HP using the new compiler, but gcc ought to be OK. We have problems in that the makefiles produced by the module builder aren't working, the makefiles that go along with the sample user modules are bad, and the README's are way out of date. Notwithstanding these problems, I think we can go ahead and roll a tarball so that everyone can try it on their machines and report back. It would be particularly nice if people could collect information for the READMEs for the systems they build on and post it to the dev group. Then we can look for volunteers to collate the contributions for the individual platforms into READMEs. I'd suggest that in addition to simply building it, that we run a simple test to make sure it actually runs. At least something to make a picture, using hardware and software rendering. I'll post my favorite network separately; anyone whose seen a presentation of mine can guess what the picture will be. If this meets with no objection, we'll roll a tarball tomorrow? Samples, too, and we'll prepare diffs off of 4.0.9. Greg
