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From: Samuel L. B. <sa...@mi...> - 2001-11-15 19:38:09
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[Apologies if you get this message more than once; I'm trying to cover as many lists as possible, and they have considerable overlap.] All - We are, as usual, pleased and relieved to announce the availability of Galaxy Communicator 3.2. In addition to bug fixes, version 3.2 includes a major enhancement of the documentation, featuring a self-contained, self-guided tutorial on the Galaxy Communicator infrastructure. This tutorial is a completely updated and reorganized version of the Galaxy Communicator course which has been taught at MITRE in the past. We've redesigned this course to be more consistent, easier to run, and easier to understand. We have also made a number of improvements to supporting tools, most significantly the unit test utility, which is now a powerful graphical tool. It allows you to connect to a Hub pretending to be a server, or to a server pretending to be a Hub, and its graphical interface allows you to respond to incoming messages and to send new messages of your own, and keeps a mouseable history. Due to its dependence on Python, the new tutorial is not yet available on Windows, but should be in the next major release (4.0). Version 3.2 also includes a better PDF version of the documentation (available now as a separate download due to its size), and completely updated documentation for the Python and Allegro bindings. The GalaxyCommunicator 3.2 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 3.1 installations to 3.2 (see docs/3point2upgrade.html). Upgrade assistance and guidance is also available at bug...@li.... Please direct all bugs, as usual, to bug...@li...; please do not send mail directly to members of the Communicator team. The GalaxyCommunicator 3.2 release is an open source distribution. It is available at http://communicator.sourceforge.net/download. Samuel Bayer For the Communicator team |