Re: List archive?

[Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

yes, there has been little activity on the list but there have been
other visible goo activities in the form of wiki writings, a bug
database, and html manual.  behind the scenes, we've been working on a
revamped release mechanism using configure scripts that addresses some
of the submitted concerns.  i have also incorporated a number of
patches into the current source tree.  we do in fact have a working
simple threads implementation running on top of pthreads under linux.
it's perhaps not a longterm solution in keeping with our philosphy but
it does allow straightforward concurrent and SMP programming in pretty
short order.  it did take some time to make the core goo runtime
thread safe and efficient.  while tinkering, i was able to find a few
unrelated runtime speed ups that make this upcoming release quite a
bit faster than 0_133.  i just need to either get it running on win32
with pthreads or get it running with threads disabled for the time
being.  i plan to get this release out possibly even next week.  i
will make sure that there are MacOS X patches in place if available.
we're also working towards a gui toolkit release in the near future
and a socket / networking library.  i hope to also produce a dynamic
compiler release by the end of the summer that greatly improves the
performance.

hope you're all having a good summer.  feel free to make suggestions.

jonathan