[Nexist-announce] Nexist first status

[Grant B. <gra...@sv...>]

Thanks to everyone who has subscribed so far.  The core Nexist team is
still getting things moving, CVS set up, etc.  We have been using
private email for communications up to now.  We are adapting.  I can
summarize where we are right now.

We have a fairly complete Alpha release in the CVS tarballs that are
created nightly on SourceForge.  This is a full CVS archive.  I will be
uploading a downloadable release later today.  We worked on getting
documentation rolling and an ANT build environment.  We are not planning
to use make.  We are using jBuilder4 by Borland right now which is
available for download from Borland's site.

Here's what we need right now:

    *  topic map users

    *  java development folks

    *  Feedback when people download the tarball and try it out

    *  Someone who know can help with Windows CVS

    *  some software configuration management assistance, ANT, etc.
        
I expect to report more concrete results in the next month.

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <gra...@sv...>