From: Bryan Patrick Coleman <bpcolema@uncg.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:50:57 -0500 (EST)

When is the next beta due?

Hello all,

	I am in the process with three other people of trying to release a
ggi-centric Linux distrobution. It will contain goodies like a ggi
graphical install and all the fb stuff (alsa too) but I would like a newer
beta / stable release of libggi. What I have been doing so far is linking
all of the new snap shot stuff against the last beta, but understandably
that does not always work. I was wondering when you hard core devel people
think you might be releaseing a new beta or better yet a stable "."
release. 

	Also I am writting a set of libraries that are along the same
lines as ggi. Except for windowing ideas. Basicaly my goal is to make a
lib than you can write for that will "target" diverse windowing tool kits.
For example you write a game that will use GTK++ in x-window (or Xggi) and
something else if its on the console. Or even the netscape widowing tk if
exicuted from withing netscape. There will be two libs for this. liboui
(pronouced lib-we) that will be primitive windowing concepts. Then a
liboctopus which will be a tk that will handel higher level windowing
concepts. liboctopus will use ggi for its graphics calls but liboui will
be its own thang and not really handle graphics at all. 

	I guess I am posting this here to see if A. any one is interested
in this and if possibly it could in the end become part of ggi and B. more
importantly if anyone wants to help. 

	I can not accept any help at this time as I am writing it for an
independant study for my cs degree. However after I turn the propject in
then it will be open game hacking. My original goal was to write it in C
but I am running out of time and I know C++ much better so it might have
to be prototyped in C++ and then moved to C.

-  Bryan Patrick Coleman  
   bpcolema@uncg.edu  
   http://www.uncg.edu/~bpcolema

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