[Communicator-user] Announcing the release of Galaxy Communicator 3.1

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@bo...>]

All -

We are, as usual, pleased and relieved to announce the availability of
Galaxy Communicator 3.1. 

Version 3.1 is mostly a bug fix distribution, but there is also some
new functionality provided. 

o New Builtin server functions, to list the available servers and
  to call subprograms so that they return values 
o Cross-compilation support, for platforms such as the StrongARM 
o A vastly improved abstraction for the event-driven programming
  model used to embed Communicator servers in external main loops 
o Hub scripting improvements,including a new directive (IGNORE:),
  a new comparison (IN), and better write-locking for the global
  namespace. 

Please direct all bugs, as usual, to bug...@li...;
please do not send mail directly to members of the Communicator team. 

The GalaxyCommunicator 3.1 distribution comes with extensive
documentation (see docs/index.html), a detailed list of new features
(see docs/new_features.html), and an upgrade guide for 3.0
installations to 3.1 (see docs/3point1upgrade.html). Upgrade
assistance and guidance is also available at
bug...@li....

The GalaxyCommunicator 3.1 release is an open source distribution. It
is available at http://communicator.sourceforge.net/download. 

Samuel Bayer 
For the Communicator team 

P.S. MIT Galaxy users: Versions of the MIT Galaxy system released
before June 26, 2001 will not compile against Galaxy Communicator 3.0
or 3.1 without minor modifications. MITRE has a set of working
patches, which you may contact me directly in order to obtain. The
same set of patches works for both distributions.