[Octex-lib-user] code released!

[Grue <gr...@th...>]

    i bet you never thought you'd see this mail, did you?

    neither did i.  in fact, i was in the middle of the final sentence of this
message when the power went out a few minutes ago.  so now i'm rewriting
it, dreading what's going to happen next to prevent me from getting this
out.

    sheesh.

    anyway, it's out!  the libraries, the command line tools, the 3D paint
program... it's all there, released under the GPL.  finally.

    we're calling it a "Sample Implementation" because it's all code that came
from the research.  it's not in a state meant for commercial or production
use.  it's buggy and messy.  there are README and INSTALL and TODO files to
explain the state, how to use it, and where we'd like to take it, but as
far as documentation goes, that's it.

    what we'd like to do is get the libraries and API cleaned up, and
re-released under an open source license that allows them to be used in
commercial products.  the details of that plan are all in the release
itself.

    the code is available at SourceForge.  you can get to the sourceforge
project most easily via the Octex homepage:
http://www.thrownclear.com/octex

    you'll also note that the Thrown Clear site and the Octex page are both in
a state of disarray at the moment.  we're trying to get them working again,
but we thought it was important to get the code out first, considering how
long it's been since we said we'd release it.  sorry about that.

    please keep discussion of the sample implementation on the octex-lib-dev list.

    thanks!

- grue