6 month update

Well, its been about 6 months now since giFT went down the tube and openFT started development. It's been pretty slow and as I said previously, I haven't been continuing development of giFT-java in this time. The file released (which is still getting a trickle of downloads) is really there at the moment for historic purposes only.

giFT is starting to look a bit stabler now, although they haven't released any files officially yet. I will give it a proper look over in a few weeks when i have exams out of the way and probably recode giFT-java to be compatible.

When i made giFT-java originally the plan was to make a lightweight cross platform client that could run in web browsers. Java is IMHO not the most memory efficient of languages and I think it would be a mistake to make a fully fledged client in the language. I also don't have the time to do this with all the other things i am working on. The new client will look a lot like, and have the same functionality as the old one.

Check back in a couple of months and hopefully there will be a new client.

TTFN

Steven