[MacPerl-Porters] Recent and upcoming freeware work (18Mar99)

[Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

I'd like to become a bit more regular in my reporting habits, so here's a
snapshot of things:

 - GUSI 2.0 is nearing beta. The documentation is nearly done.
   One task on which I'm working is an editor for configuration files.
 - Also, I'd like to have any necessary paperwork with Apple in place
   before I release anything, and I still haven't looked in detail at
   what I need there.
 - GUSI 2.0 covers what I believe to be the core area of current use,
   supporting threads, MSL, Open Transport TCP/IP.
 - Once 2.0 is released, I'll get to work on the features which are needed
   for my MacPerl plans:
   - Sfio support (and a thread safe sfio).
   - Heavy weight threads / light weight processes, i.e., threads carrying
     their own stdio table and environment variables.
   These will form the core of the 2.1 enhancements.
 - Other improvements for GUSI will be tackled subject to development and
   testing resources. In particular, it's likely that there will be
   multicast support if anybody can give me a good way of testing it.
 - In the next few weeks, my aging PowerMac 6100/60 will be relieved
   by the arrival of "megatherion", a 350MHz G3 minitower, which should
   speed up builds enormously and motivate me to add support for non-Metrowerks
   compilers in the 2.1 timeframe.

Matthias

-- 
Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
  "And that's why I am going to turn this world upside down, and make
   of it a fire so *bright* that someone real will notice"
                                -- Vernor Vinge, _Tatja Grimm's World_

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