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It's been a L-O-N-G time since our last PLIB release.

This is version 1.8.5.

Grab it from http://plib.sf.net

**ANNOUNCING PLIB-1.8.4**

It's been a while since we made a PLIB release and we've accumulated
quite a few small bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Download the new release from the usual place:

   http://plib.sourceforge.net/download.html

Have fun!

---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>    WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org
Projects : http://plib.sf.net    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net
            http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net
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ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.8.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is just a maintenance release - a few small fixes:

   * NET now allows a NULL argument to netSocket::accept

   * Added #include <stdio.h> to all top level header files
     in order to ensure that NULL is defined.

   * Added ssgaScreenDump into ssgAux.dsp

   * Cleaned up some warnings from MSVC.

   * Added Christos Dimitrakakis' fixes to SL to prevent
     crackling in certain envelope conditions.

   * Added pwAutoRepeatKey to control keyboard auto-repeat.

   * Fixed a horrific bug in the sgDistToLineSegment routines.

Enjoy!

---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>    WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org
Projects : http://plib.sf.net    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net
            http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net
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ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.8.2
---------------------

This release fixes a few remaining problems from the 1.8 series:

   * PW runs on Mac and MacOSX.

   * Uppercase keystrokes work in PW for Windows.

   * Version number in ul.h now set correctly.

   * Package builds correctly under MSVC.

---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>    WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org
Projects : http://plib.sf.net    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net
            http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net
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ANNOUNCING PLIB-Examples 1.6.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   I made a small error when making the distribution for the
PLIB examples package.  This release (of just the PLIB examples - not
the entire package) fixes the missing data files for the 'water' demo
program.

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.6.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After over a year of fairly hard work, the PLIB team is proud to
announce a new stable release.

PLIB is now pretty stable and reliable.  This release adds new PUI
widgets, some new Joystick functions, and and a *TON* of new functionality
in the SSG Aux library to allow you to instantly produce cool effects like
fire, waves and particle systems.

PLIB can be downloaded from http://plib.sf.net

Many thanks to all of the PLIB developers - without whose tireless (and
sometimes tiresome) work, this release would not have been possible.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
Mail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
URLs : http://www.sjbaker.org
        http://plib.sf.net http://tuxaqfh.sf.net http://tuxkart.sf.net
        http://prettypoly.sf.net http://freeglut.sf.net
        http://toobular.sf.net   http://lodestone.sf.net

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> PLIB needs a better logo - the present one (the word PLIB against the
> standard GIMP starburst pattern) was done in an extreme hurry and with
> zero public contribution - and it needs replaceing.
> 
> So: Email your entries to me <sjb...@ai...> and I'll put them up
> on a web page somewhere and we'll hold a vote on plib-devel one month from
> today (July 10th).

Well, today is July 18th and I'm pleased to announce the winner!

...Oh...wait...I didn't get a *single* entry.   :-(

I guess I get to keep the gold plated penguin I was going to give away
as the prize.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
Mail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
URLs : http://www.sjbaker.org
        http://plib.sf.net http://tuxaqfh.sf.net http://tuxkart.sf.net
        http://prettypoly.sf.net http://freeglut.sf.net
        http://toobular.sf.net   http://lodestone.sf.net

PLIB needs a better logo - the present one (the word PLIB against the
standard GIMP starburst pattern) was done in an extreme hurry and with
zero public contribution - and it needs replaceing.

So: Email your entries to me <sjb...@ai...> and I'll put them up
on a web page somewhere and we'll hold a vote on plib-devel one month from
today (July 10th).

All entries must be releasable without nasty copyright restrictions.

In my opinion, it would be nice to have a logo that works in 3D and which
could be built into the SSGAux library as a standard feature.  As such it
could animate too - but we wouldn't want it to take up *too* much space.

It also has to look good at moderate resolution on our web page - and as
a teeny-tiny button for people to use as a link on their PLIB-based games.

No limit on number of entries per person - but please don't flood me with
nearly identical versions of the same thing.

I'll think of a suitable prize later on.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
Mail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
URLs : http://www.sjbaker.org
        http://plib.sf.net http://tuxaqfh.sf.net http://tuxkart.sf.net
        http://prettypoly.sf.net http://freeglut.sf.net
        http://toobular.sf.net   http://lodestone.sf.net

I thought I'd pass on this announcement via the PLIB announce list
because PrettyPoly is a 3D modeller that's been written using PLIB
and as a consequence is of particular interest to PLIB/SSG users.

PrettyPoly is a key technology for amateur games writers because it's
heavily optimised for games modelling - and it works seamlessly
with PLIB applications.  However, writing a complete 3D modeller is
a MAJOR investment in effort - and the relatively small PrettyPoly
team (all of whom are also active FGFS and PLIB developers) have
worked hard to get to this point.

This is a "Developers" release - meaning "Don't expect too much"
and "Don't model your next game epic using it *yet*".

If you are an SSG user, please try it and report back any bugs,
suggestions, (and especially) wild enthusiasm and gushing praise
on the PrettyPoly users list (*NOT* on the PLIB list and *NOT* on
the PrettyPoly developer's list and especially **NOT** to my personal
email address!).

Here is the official announcement:

                            --ooOOoo--

This is the first, developers only release of the PrettyPoly 3D Model
Editor. In two weeks we will be making a stable public release, but for
now this version is to enable developers to try it out and send bug
reports/comments - to the pre...@so... mailing list
please.

<Steve:  He means pre...@li... !>
                                   ^^^^^^

You can download it from http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net.

A note - you need to set the environment variable PPE_ROOT to be equal
to the top level PrettyPoly directory (the dir that ppe-0.0.1.tar.gz
will unzip to), for PrettyPoly to find its default python key bindings.

This is the list of currently known bugs ;

 * Enabling the backface widget on the toolbox doesn't
   do anything

 * Resizing a window in Ortho doesn't do the right thing

 * Ortho mode doesn't behave 'intuitively' when you want the object to
   become smaller or larger

 * Display widgets don't reflect the current state of the system

 * Selection buffer size needs to be dynamically determined

 * The mysterious fire-engine selection problem

 * Lighting doesn't always behave itself then selecting objects

 * Opening and closing nodes in the Structure viewer doesn't work

 * Materials are now initialised - but maybe the default isn't
   ideal

 * The ppeScene::changed() function is never called

 * Cut/Paste in 3D viewer and structure viewer "fight" over the
clipboard
   (Actually, I've *hacked* them to use different clipboard so it
doesn't
   crash - but we need a proper fix).

 * Pressing the 'close' button on the menu bar doesn't call the
ppeViewer's
   destructor function.

 * Rotate mode doesn't work.

 * Build Rectangle actually just builds any old Quad.

 * Loading and saving models with no ssgSimpleState's in *some* file
   import/export formats. (Technically, this is a PLIB bug).

In addition, there are some "vital" features that need to be addressed:

 * UNDO

 * Surface of revolution and extrude functions.

 * Additional ssgaShape primitives needed (this is a PLIB WIBNI).

 * Need "build regular polygon"

 * Need way to control number of triangles generated by build-sphere and
cube
   and for number of sides in "regular polygon".

 * Break-into-triangles and Optimise-into-strips/fans functions.

 * Offset current plane/line/point to the current cursor location.

 * Tabbed viewers for people with limited screen space.

 * Alternative vertex selection indicators required (especially for
Voodoo users).

 * Merge 'select' mechanism for 3D viewer and structure viewer.

 * Can't change grid spacing or grid-snap spacing/axis via the PPE GUI.
   (although I think the Python routines still work).

_______________________________________________
Prettypoly-devel mailing list - web page; http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net
Pre...@li...
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/prettypoly-devel

ANNOUNCING: PLIB 1.5.1, PLIB Demos.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In order that developers may get some experience with features scheduled
to go into PLIB 1.6.x (eventually), this is the second beta: PLIB 1.5.1

I also created tarballs for ExPoser (which requires PLIB 1.5.1) and
TicTacToe3D (which runs under PLIB 1.4.0 or later).  Check out the
new "Examples and Demos" link from the PLIB homepage.

  * Added ssgTween and ssgTweenController

  * Added puFileSelector - henceforth puFilePicker is deprecated.

  * Added ulList

  * Added VRML loader (this one works!)

  * Numerous bug fixes in other loaders.

  * Added TopHat support to JS

  * Added support for >3 simultaneous sounds in SL.
    (You have to explicitly enable that though - it's not
    the default)

  * Fixed bugs in util's directory handling.

  * puInput and puListBox now cope better with text that
    is too big for the widget

  * puListBox (and hence puFileSelector and puFilePicker)
    works with both large and small font sizes.

  * puDial changed to be derived from puSlider - many
    consequences of that change will be visible in the
    application.  (eg output range is 0..1 and not 0..360)

  * PUI widgets are now 'sticky' so that if you are
    dragging a slider along a puSlider and your mouse
    slips off the edge of it, it'll still have "focus".

  * Added sgLerpAnglesVec3 to linearly interpolate
    angles allowing for the nasty wrap-around-360
    problem.

  * Added sgLineSegment3ToLine3, sgDistSquaredToLineVec3
    sgDistSquaredToLineSegmentVec3, sgDistToLineVec3 and
    sgDistToLineSegmentVec3.  Also sgLine3 and sgLineSegment3
    structures.

  * Added a 'Gallery' page to the documentation to show
    potential developers the range of applications that use
    PLIB - and also to promote things our developers have done.
    To save download time and CVS space, the actual images
    are not in the PLIB tarball.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

ANNOUNCING: PLIB 1.4.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  This is a minor fix to accomodate some of the *GOOD* things those
*NICE* people at RedHat have stuck us with in RH 7.1.  Over the past month,
I've had only about a dozen emails with problems in PLIB 1.4.1 and *ALL*
of them were from RedHat 7.x users.  Mandrake 8.0 users will probably
have the same set of problems.  Get SuSE or Debian next time *please* :-)

  While I was doing the release, I also added a fix for a crash in ssgaSphere
and another in puFilePicker.  Nothing significant - no known PLIB applications
see these problems in practice.

  So, if you managed to compile 1.4.0 or 1.4.1 sucessfully, don't bother
upgrading to 1.4.2.

  All sorts of new goodies will be released in PLIB 1.5.1 sometime later today,
but that's going to be an unstable/beta release - so if you are an end-user,
stick with 1.4.x.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.4.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is an update on 1.4.0 to fix a handful of minor problems that
have emerged in that release.

  * The MSVC project files were inadvertently released with UNIX-style
    line endings which appears to cause *some* versions of MSVC to think
    that they are empty projects?!?

  * Many improvements and bug fixes to puFileSelector and puListBox.

  * Minor fix to NET to accomodate Solaris users.

  * Fixed puMenuBar so it highlights as you drag the mouse across it.

  * Fixed ulOpenDir so it returns NULL on error on non-MSVC systems

  * Changed colour of text on buttons in the documentation to make them
    easier to read by colour-blind users.

There should be no changes needed in application programs - and most
users need not upgrade if they are already at 1.3.3 or later.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.4.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  This is the first new stable release of PLIB in about a year - so much
has gone into improving stability and increasing functionality.

  There are quite a few last-minute changes since the final 1.3.3 beta
release - so it's probably worth the effort to grab a new copy.

  Many thanks to all who helped get this release out the door.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.3.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is the UTTERLY final beta version before we go to 1.4.0 (hopefully
on Wednesday at around midnight GMT).

Application authors are strongly encouraged to test this release against their
programs because I don't expect to make any changes at all to this version
other than perhaps to update the Borland C++ project files if we receive
new ones in time and change the version number!

Very little changed between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 - a few minor cleanup operations
and just one significant change to puDial's in PUI (please refer to the
PUI documentation if you are using puDial's).

There have been a few changes to the 'complex' example program to make it
a bit easier on the eyes (Green widgets on a Red background! Does anyone
want to admit to a severe case of Daltonism?!)

MANY thanks to all who participated in the final cleanup exercise - the end is
now in sight!

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

Announcing PLIB 1.3.2.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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).

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
HomeMail : <sjb...@ai...>   WorkMail: <sj...@li...>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sf.net     http://tuxaqfh.sf.net  http://tuxkart.sf.net
           http://agtoys.sf.net   http://prettypoly.sf.net
           http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net

Sourceforge tell me that their systems will be down for a while
on Friday:

> 2. Project page webservers hosting subdomains
> (yourprojectname.sourceforge.net) will be down Friday December 15 from
> 9PM PST (12AM EST) until 3AM PST.
> 
> 3. CVS will be unavailable (read only part of the time) from 7PM
> until 3AM PST
> 
> 4. Mailing lists and mail aliases will be unavailable until 3AM PST

If you need to check things in or out, read the manuals or get something
off your chest via email - you should plan around these times.

-- 
Steve Baker   HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>
              WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
              HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
              Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net
                         http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.3.1.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CHANGES SINCE 1.3.0:

  * Changed License conditions to specifically permit
    use of PLIB outside of LGPL for embedded applications.

  * New Aux library has 'ssga' classes to add high level
    shapes such as cylinders, cubes and spheres (two
    different kinds).

  * Lots of new example programs.

  * PUI enhanced for support for multiple windows,
    puFilePicker and puListBox

  * Completely new audio driver for SGI's IRIX.

  * Added a loader for the Quake 'MD2' format. It
    seems to work amazingly well.

  * Added 'UL' library for general utility functions.
    libplibul currently contains: portable clock/timer
    low level networking code, directory searching
    routines.

  * Over 100 other significant improvements and bug
    fixes - there is a very detailed change list in
    the file 'CHANGES' in the distribution.

You can download PLIB from the usual place:

     http://plib.sourceforge.net

Enjoy!

Just in case anyone didn't catch the announcement, Sourceforge
will be down from 10pm Saturday Sept 22nd to 8am Sunday (Pacific
time).

They are moving all their servers and need a little down-time.

Hence, access to:

            http://plib.sourceforge.net
            http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net
            http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net
            http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net

- and all the associated mailing lists (and anything else at
Sourceforge for that matter) will be impossible for that 10
hour period.

A good time for all those 60,000 hard working OpenSource
developers to throw an enormous party - or (more likely)
catch up on a little well-needed sleep!

As agreed - and after a 30 day comment period has expired with no
contradictory posts - I have added this to the terms of the PLIB
license.

It doesn't take away any rights from existing or future PLIB users
but it slightly relaxes the LGPL license restrictions to allow
people to use PLIB in embedded systems (like cellphones and game
consoles) where the conditions imposed by the LGPL are truly impossible
to meet - even with the best efforts of all involved.

The addendum says:

| As a special exception Steve Baker gives permission to link these 
| libraries with proprietary software and distribute the resulting 
| executable without including that proprietary code in any distribution 
| as the LGPL would normally dictate. 
| 
| This exception is ONLY granted in the case of an embedded system in 
| which there is no possibility of an end user re-linking or recompiling 
| against new versions of this library that may appear in the future.

I trust this isn't too controversial - and in any case, it's a done deal!

-- 
Steve Baker   HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>
              WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
              HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
              Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net
                         http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB 1.2.0 and 1.3.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is one of those rare occasions when there is nothing significantly
new in the release - but we are incrementing the version number to indicate
stability.

Both PLIB 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 are essentially identical to 1.1.12.

From today onwards:

  1.0.xx is officially obsolete - please don't use it, rely on it
         or distribute it.  If you find an application that needs
         it, please ask the author to upgrade.

  1.1.xx is also officially obsolete - same deal.

  1.2.0  is the new 'stable' release, it's feature set is frozen and
         there won't be a 1.2.1 unless we have to fix a critical bug.
         This is the "known good" version that Linux distro's should
         ship, application developers should build against and users
         should download.

  1.3.0  is the first of the new 'experimental' versions - that's where all
         the cutting edge new development will be done, new features will
         be added - new bugs also.  Ultimately there will be a 1.4.0 which
         will once again be stable.

Thanks to the many people who helped to push 1.2.0 screaming and
kicking into the world.  There is no great glamor in working on PLIB
- but several quality projects would not be where they are without your
help.

-- 
Steve Baker   HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>
              WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
              HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
              Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net
                         http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net
                         http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net

ANNOUNCING PLIB V1.1.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  It's been a *long* time since we had a PLIB release (partly because it's
now available under CVS - and partly because I've been too busy to do it).

  This release will probably be the last PLIB prior to the new, 1.2.xx
stable release - so please check it carefully against your applications
code and mail the PLIB-developer's list if there are any problems.

  I suspect that the 'CHANGES' file is wildly inaccurate - but here are
the changes I know about and can remember:

  * Fixed some compilation problems for Macintosh/Codewarrior
    which treats 'xor' and 'or' as reserved words!! Yikes!
    Thanks to Darrell Walisser for that piece of nasty news.

  * Fixed some problems in slMODinst.cxx that were causing
    compilation warnings under windoze (thanks to Bram Stolk)

  * Changed SL to open audio devices with O_NONBLOCK -
    thanks to Trent Gamblin for spotting this one.

  * Added configure.in check for libdl to cover bug in ld.so
    under Linux.  Application programs under Linux need to
    link to libdl.so in order to work around this.
    Ben Woodhead <za...@is...> added this.

  * Added Borland project files, thanks to Dave Heil for
    contributing these.

  * Swapped order of multiplication in sgMultMat4. Thanks to
    Lucas Ackerman for spotting this one.

  * Added a unique ID field to every node in the scene graph.
    This helps out some picking algorithms in PPE.

  * Added some more ifdefs to make PLIB Audio/JS components
    to make them work under NetBSD. (They already work with
    FreeBSD and OpenBSD).  Many thanks to Rene Hexel!

  * Fixed a ref() problem with ssgVtxTable::clone - thanks
    to Will Weisser for catching that one!

  * Added checks to ensure that a valid OpenGL rendering
    context exists before ssgInit/puiInit/fnt-loaders are
    called.

  * Added Dave McClurg's ASE loader and matching writer.
    If you use the new 'ssgLoad()/ssgSave()' functions,
    it'll "just work" - if you prefer you can call
    ssgLoadASE/ssgSaveASE analogously to all the other
    loaders.

  * Several fixes to the quaternion code in SG were
    contributed by "Negative0" <neg...@ea...>
    (Who was that masked man?)

-- 
Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)

Lucas Ackerman spotted a serious problem in the PLIB/SG library.

The order of the arguments to sgMultMat4 were reversed so it
implemented   dst = B * A  rather than  dst = A * B as advertised.

I've fixed this in the latest CVS copy of PLIB - and it'll be
in the upcoming 1.2 release.

I'm taking the unusual step of mentioning this on the PLIB-ANNOUNCE
list because there is a very real chance that some existing programs
could be broken by this fix.

If your program *is* affected, you will either have to depend
on a particular version of PLIB being loaded (NASTY!) or you
should change your sources to use sgPreMultMat4 or sgPostMultMat4
which are unaffected by the change.  In that way, your code will
work OK with earlier versions of PLIB as well as the upcoming
PLIB 1.2.

Sorry about this.

-- 
Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)

IMPORTANT PLIB ANNOUNCEMENT.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The PLIB web site has moved from the Woodsoup server to Sourceforge:

     http://plib.sourceforge.net

Please update your bookmarks, change links and tell your friends,
family and pets!

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Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)

Mailing List Move.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Tux_AQFH and PLIB mailing lists are moving to the SourceForge
servers.  I have re-subscribed everyone who was subscribed to the
following lists:

   pli...@wo...
   pli...@wo...
   pli...@wo...
   tux...@wo...
   tux...@wo...
   tux...@wo...

To the corresponding new lists:

   pli...@li...
   pli...@li...
   pli...@li...
   tux...@li...
   tux...@li...
   tux...@li...

(Notice that there is no longer an underscore in tuxaqfh - that's
due to a bug in the SourceForge software).

To post to the list, just email to the lists above.  The 'announce'
lists are heavily moderated (by me) - so they'll basically only
contain major announcements.

To subscribe, unsubscribe, switch to digest-only mode or visit the
(currently empty!) archives, go to:

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/plib-devel
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/plib-users
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/plib-announce
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxaqfh-devel
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxaqfh-users
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxaqfh-announce

My next step is to relocate the PLIB and Tux_AQFH web sites
to SourceForge - at which point, all this information will
be available from the web site.

Sorry for the incovenience.

        Steve.

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Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)

Just a test to make sure we have working email at sourceforge.

-- 
Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjb...@ai... (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sj...@ht...      (work)

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