[PLIB-announce] ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.3.2.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Announcing PLIB 1.3.2.
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This is the first PLIB release since September 2000 and although it's another
odd-numbered (ie potentially unstable) release, it is in feature-freeze and
will become PLIB 1.4.0 within the next week or so.

If you are a PLIB application author, you should now port your PLIB code to
1.3.2 and check that it's all working correctly so that we can get any
last-minute fixes into 1.4.0.

The MAJOR non-reverse compatible change with 1.3.2 onwards is that the
SSG loader functions now require a new argument to pass 'ssgLoaderOptions'
rather than the old ad-hoc collection of function hooks.

Reference counting has also been added to ssgState objects so if you load
your textures and states once at the start of your code and delete the
models as you progress from one level of the game to another (As TuxKart
and TuxAQFH do for example) then you'll need to manually 'ref()' each
state and texture as you create it in order to avoid them being deleted
when the last model that refers to them is removed.

There are *MANY* significant enhancements and bug fixes.

You can grab PLIB 1.3.2 at http://plib.sf.net  (notice that 'sourceforge'
can now be abbreviated to 'sf' in URL's).

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