New Release of Bombyx, Project Fully Open Now

[Zed S. <ze...@ze...>]

Hello Everyone,

After being gone for a short amount of time, I have just made a
significant release of Bombyx.  What makes this release significant is
that I've cleaned up the build system and the dependencies considerably
so as to make porting much, much easier.  Everyone who is interested can
pick-up FreeBSD and Linux binaries, as well as source at
http://bombyx.sourceforge.net/ in the Files section.  Also, anyone who
wants to join the project and help me can e-mail me to get on.  All are
welcome.


This release now uses the FLTK 1.1.0rc1 release, SILC Toolkit 0.8.2 and
the SCons 0.07 build system instead of autoconf/automake.  SCons is a
fantastic build system written in Python (1.5.2) that does lots of nice
things like automated dependencies, cross platform operation,
configuration, and other great stuff.  I would have to say that it is
probably going to be the best thing for building C/C++ projects in the
near future.  You can get SCons (if you want to compile) at
http://www.scons.org/ and it is open source.

There is updated documentation (only a few things are incorrect) that
walks through the whole install.  Please read it and let me know if it
works for you.

The functionality of this release is pretty much the same as the last
release, except for a bunch of GUI improvements here and there, and the
removal of SigC++ (replacing it with sigslot which is included).

So, if you have time, go check it out at http://bombyx.sourceforge.net/
by either downloading source and compiling or getting a binary for Linux
or FreeBSD.

I'm also asking anyone who wants to help to lend a hand with the
project.  I'm looking for people who want to help me finish off this
initial release so that it is at a usable state.  After which, I want to
redesign the interface with some really radical ideas and finish up the
back-end code so that it has all the features needed, possibly releasing
it as a separate library for C++ SILC work.  I'm looking for anyone who
wants to get started on writing code (C++), doing win32 builds, and
creating graphics or other nice things.  Anyone who wants to join is
welcome.

The next few months will be when I start writing the File Sharing and
Private Chat features, and fix up the Agents hell that I started. 
Anyone who is interested, just e-mail me and let me know what you wanna
do.

Have a good one.

Zed A. Shaw