Re: Swarm 1.3.1 Available

[Pietro Terna]

        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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