0.1.0 hits CVS!

the long awaited (well at least for me) ;) alpha release of Perl Chat has finally been released. Though it has a few bugs left in it and performance right now is very poor, its out there!

Of the things that have changed the greatest is that the client no longer uses threads. Thats right kids, no more threads. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. The first thing you will notice though is a performance loss in the way the GUI interacts with the user. This is because I am using a timer which takes control away from the user every 5 seconds and checks for new messages from the server. Though control is only lost for about a second, you can definately tell. I am going to work on this and try to make the impact of this less noticeable.

If anyone was wondering, this is the reason why I did not make this release accessible from anything other than CVS. Its not nice enough for anyone to use right now.

Hopefully I'll polish this up tomorrow and give you something functional.

Tor