[Overflow] Overflow 0.5.0 released

[Jean-Marc V. <va...@ge...>]

We're pleased to announce the release of Overflow 0.5.0. Overflow
(http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html) is a free (GPL/LGPL)
"data flow oriented" development environment. It can be use to build
complex applications by combining small, reusable building blocks. In
some way, it has similarities with Simulink and LabView, although it
is not designed (and far) to be a "clone" of any of them.

Overflow features a GUI that allows rapid application development and
features a visual debugger.  Although Overflow can be used as a rapid
prototyping tool, it can still be used for building real-time
applications, such as audio effects processing. Since overflow is not
really an "interpreted language", it can be quite fast.


This new release brings a number of improvements over version
0.4.3. These improvements include:

- Binary I/O (serialization/unserialization) of objects
- Major improvements to object ASCII I/O, mostly with the Vector type
- Default FFT implementation when FFTW is not available
- Possibility of passing any object type as a parameter from the GUI
- gcc 2.96-RH support
- Performance improvements
- Fixes for Piper (http://bioinformatics.org/piper/) compatibility 
- Several new nodes

Issues:

- It is not clear whether Overflow compiles with gcc 3.0 installed in 
     the standard (/usr) path