Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 06:54:05 -0500 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] Net: netlabs.org updates From: "Adrian Gschwend" After a long absence in public forums/mailinglists I would like to restart the habit to send mails about netlabs.org projects on a regular base. During the last years of my studies I was busy with a lot of other stuff so netlabs.org was not really the first thing I thought about when I got some spare time. There is still plenty of stuff to do so please be patient with all of us :-) PROJECTS: REXX/OS: You probably found out that this was an April-fool, there were several hints for that, you should check: - the date of the news - the timestamp of the file on the ftp - the revision of the "kernel" - the binary in a hex editor (the original binary was about 70kbytes) We had the idea for this joke in a Wintercamp with some of our developers, I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Thanks to all of you who participated in the joke and took it even further (you might check some newsgroups for some very funny followups - greetings to Holger)! The binary was mainly done by Chris Wohlgemuth and the text basicaly by Christian Langanke. Later Ulrich Möller couldn't ressist to add a lot of other jokes too. Thanks to all of you! The website will most probably stay like this for "historic" reasons :-) URL: http://rexxos.netlabs.org Odin: I get quite a lot of emails of people who ask what happened to the daily/weekly Odin builds. They first stopped because one of the developers who made them moved to Germany. Now the problem is some big changes in Odin which lead to compilation issues that are not yet resolved completely. Because of this it does not yet make sense to restart the daily/weekly Odin builds. However, as soon as this issue is resolved there are plans to bring them back online! Also the rumours about Odin beeing dead are completely nonsense, netlabs.org CVS is still updated on a regular base, check yourself if you don't believe it. There is still a tremendous development and you can imagine from which side I guess. URL: http://odin.netlabs.org (btw the application database is back, you can add reports again in case you didn't notice yet). PMPDF: After some hot discussions Bart sat down and released an updated version of PMPDF. This time as a WPI package which makes it *really* easy to install (however, still RTFM). It's recommended for everyone out there who would like to create PDF's in OS/2 on the fly! URL: http://pmpdf.netlabs.org Everblue: You probably won't believe it but there *is* progress in Everblue, and very good one too! Sebastian Wittmeier worked on Everblue the past weeks to continue the work done by Brian Smith. The result is a GIMP running on OS/2 PM without the need of XFree86/OS2! In the next days we will release a first public *beta* version (which does have problems for sure). We hope to nail down some bugs afterwards (and also to find some more supporters to finish that project :-) I will announce the beta soon, please don't bug me with questions before that :) For the impatient people we have some screenshots on the homepage. URL: http://everblue.netlabs.org Lookout/2: I already regret that I've announced Lookout/2 to the public month ago because there is still nothing available as download ;-) Today I was in contact with Fonz, the main developer of Lookout. He still does work on it and the product gets better and better. But for sure this does not help anyone of you out there as long as there is nothing to download. We know that and we try to change that, I know Fonz and Lookout good enough that I will never make any public statements about a release anymore in the future ;) Simply wait. The day will come. Probably... URL: http://lookout.netlabs.org That's it so far, there is still plenty of stuff left to announce. Simply browse our projects, there is a tremendous ammount of new stuff in there, some big and some small things but they could be useful :-). We try to automate the news messages in the future but I have to code that first. Also there are some other important things we would like to announce/discuss but as usual we all don't have the time needed. More later. Thanks for the ongoing support Adrian Gschwend & the netlabs.org developers http://www.netlabs.org -- Adrian Gschwend at netlabs.org ktk [a t] netlabs.org ------- Free Software for OS/2 and eCS http://www.netlabs.org -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org