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18 March 1999

Status Update

This is just a brief status update to let you know what's been happening on Mnemonic over the last few weeks.

CORE Development:

  • The CORE is just about ready for BETA. It works well and it's been fairly extensively tested but we're a little uncertain whether to release it without one feature (Prioritising Messages). Once the dev team has decided either to leave it until a later release or a design is decided on, coded and tested, then the CORE will go to BETA. Ideas and discussion welcome.

    Browser Development:

  • Kasper Peeters has been hard at work on the layout engine and reports that, not only is it mostly coded, but that it's performance is very fast.
  • Preben Randol has produced a mock up GTK UI for Mnemonic using Glade. It looks good. The glade template will probably be manually converted into C++ for optimisation purposes.

    Other News

  • You may have noticed that the promised mirroring of the websites between www.mnemonic.org and www.browser.mnemonic.org has not yet occured. Mea Culpa. I've been real slow about getting through my todo items. My Apologies. Top of my TODO list now are Regularising the news updates., The Mnemonic FAQ and sorting out the mirrors.
  • Speaking of the FAQ; if you have questions about Mnemonic, then please feel free to mail me at joev@mnemonic.org and I'll include them.
  • Finally, I expect to be moving the www.mnemonic.org website to a new server sometime in the coming 2 weeks so there may be a brief outage at that time.

    05 February 1999

    New Integrated website launched

    First, we'd like to welcome you to our new Mnemonic "Integrated" website.

    Over the Christmas period (and since) the Mnemonic development team has been working very hard polishing off the CORE for Beta release.

    The lack of updates has been a consequence of the redesign of this website and a wait for the CORE to be closer to Beta. It's very close now, so we thought it time to launch the new website.

    The CORE is the heart of the Mnemonic project, providing runtime loading of objects in answer to messages delivered by other objects.

    To reflect this impending release and a stream split on the development, the web site is undergoing a new look for 1999.

    The split on the development side is into the gtkBrowser and the Mnemonic CORE technology.

    With the new website, the emphasis is on clear concise content including much more extensive information about Mnemonic, how to use it, how to develop object libraries for it and how to develop applications using it.

    The pace of change in the project is currently quite high, so we hope to keep quite regular updates coming out on the website.

    Watch this space!

    12 December 1998

    First, Apologies for the lack of news updates lately. It's been a busy time.

    The focus of Mnemonic development at the moment is on the CORE which is looking like release as a BETA around Xmas or early in the new year.

    In reflection of this, the Websites will also be undergoing some changes, primarily to reflect the splitting of the Mnemonic tree into three areas, CORE, Components (i.e. OILS) and the gtkBrowser itself. Again, this will be close to the new year... watch this space!

    With the solidifing of the CORE, development of components and the Mnemonic gtkBrowser look like speeding up considerably early next year.

    The BETA release of the CORE does not imply a BETA of the gtkBrowser however, so please do not expect a fully workable browser at that date.

    12 Sept 1998

    Mnemonic developers release Alpha-2 is very close to completion pending the next release of glibc that fixes a bug in the dynamic loading mechanisms.

    Aplha-2, nicknamed 'Dipsy' features the fully modular core, and reworked modules for HTTP, GIF, JPEG etc.

    Mnemonic 'Dipsy' release will be available on Linux and Solaris platforms and should also be available in binary form (for Linux) as Debian and RedHat packages.

    26 August 1998

    A serious bug on Linux when using dlopen() with threads further delays the alpha-2 release. Solaris development has been temporarily stopped by an egcs bug. Bug reports have been written.

     

    27 July 1998

    Development on the alpha-2 continues. The developers agreed upon a "feature freeze" called out by Kasper Peeters to debug the fully modularized core of mnemonic.

    Some tasks have been relayed to alpha-3, reflected in the updated TODO-database. Last makefile dependencies are sorted out.

    A full blown C++ compiler is needed now as c++ exceptions are used now to ease bug-less development. Recent Egcs compilers are sufficient.

    For the upcoming alpha-2-release, mnemonic will still be based on the stable branch of GTK+. Developers hope that alpha-2 will additionaly run on Solaris.

     

    19 July 1998

    At this moment, Sun Jul 19, the developers are finalizing the modularisation. When this is finished, the major redesign and implemention which started about half a year ago, will be ready. It means that almost everything in the Mnemonic code is based on modules. Everyone could use those modules in their own program (they're free to use for anybody).

    Also, these things will be documented (work is being done on the documentation part of the project right now), so people could start writing their own modules for inclusion in the Mnemonic Project too :-)