[ZooLib-dev] ZooLib updated on Freshmeat

[Michael D. C. <cra...@go...>]

Freshmeat II, http://freshmeat.net , was launched a few days ago with 
lots of whizzy new features, most importantly more detailed categories 
and the ability to track multiple branches of a project, and also have 
extra items of information like mailing lists and Zip files.

Awaiting freshmeat staff approval (so it'll be a day or two before my 
changes are
visible), I've updated

http://freshmeat.net/projects/zoolib/

With the following items:

- Added multiple categories for ZooLib and successfully lobbied the Freshmeat staff 
to add "application frameworks" as a new category.  Now someone searching for 
software to suit a particular purpose will be more likely to find ZooLib (as 
opposed to specifically doing a name search for "ZooLib").

- I added a "demos" branch and issued a 1.0.1 release for it

This is for the demo source - not sure if I want to add the demo binaries as
a separate branch, as each of the individual programs is a separate download.  Anyone
who visits the sourceforge pages will see the demo binaries anyway.

(*** HEY YOU! *** Wanna write some more demos?  They'd be really helpful!  They
don't have to be big, actually smaller ones are usually better!)

- Updated the main description to point out that the demo source is needed for
building the whole thing

Lots of people were grabbing just the main sources and then not being able to build.

- Issued a 0.8.1 release.  I should have done this on Freshmeat a long time ago as
Andy updated the sources on SourceForge soon after I released 0.8, but my life has
been quite topsy turvy.  Anyone looking at the sourceforge page would have found
0.8.1, but if someone just grabbed the .tgz file directly off of Freshmeat's link
they would have got obsolete code

In the 0.8.1 change notes I acknowledged the known problems of building on xBSD,
MS Visual C++, and BeOS PowerPC with the promise we're working on it.

Note that my life is showing promise of returning to some semblance of normality
now that I'm actually living in the house I bought a few months ago.  And in fact 
I'll be getting a new hard disk for my PC in the next few weeks, and will
be running both a BSD on it and Intel BeOS, and I've been fiddling with BeOS PowerPC
on my Mac.

Besides making the Freshmeat information current, ZooLib should spend a brief period
on Freshmeat's front page which should cause a small spike of interest.

It's possible to correct the content of a release without causing a re-release of
the project to appear on Freshmeat's homepage.  If you have any corrections that I
should make to our Freshmeat entries, please let me know right away and I'll fix
them.

Thine in Utter Torment,

Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
cra...@go...

   Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.