--- Release Note for YYonX verion 1.3 --- 1991/03/18 Masayuki Ida, the YY project leader, CSRL Aoyama Gakuin University YYonX version 1.3 is now ready for anonymous FTP at ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp under YY directory. There are several files. (Sizes for documents may change, sorry.) 371 Mar 19 14:49 README.1.3 4768 Mar 19 14:47 ReleaseNote.1.3 3823 Nov 5 20:18 WHAT.IS.YYonX 268125 Mar 19 15:06 client.tar.Z 12500 Mar 19 15:08 demo.tar.Z 490971 Mar 19 15:07 doc.tar.Z 1237 Mar 19 14:57 how-to-install-yy-client 940 Mar 19 15:01 how-to-install-yy-server 154318 Mar 19 15:08 server.tar.Z 0. All the .uu (uuencoded) files are not set. Please be sure to set your FTP softare to the binary mode to get tar.Z files. 1. ReleaseNote.1.3 is this file. (plain text file) 2. WHAT.IS.YYonX contains the explanation of YYonX. (plain text file) Please read this file before unpack the source tar files. 3. client.1.3.tar.Z contains the compressed tar file for yyclient directory. 4. server.1.3.tar.Z contains the compressed tar file for yyserver directory. 5. doc.1.3.tar.Z contains the compressed tar file for yydoc directory. There are YY-protol documents and YYAPI documents. (YYAPI documents will be updated shortly.) Also there is a technical report PS file about YY and YYonX overview. Be careful. Printing the technical report file needs 30minutes! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (since two bit images are included. Or you may need to split the printing pages.) 6. demo.1.3.tar.Z contains the compressed tar file for yydemo directory. yydemo.lisp is a simple displaying demo. yygrapher.lisp is a graphing toy. 7. how-to-install-yy-client (plain text file) contains the direction to install yy-client. 8. how-to-install-yy-server (plain text file) contains the direction to install yy-server. Sources are copyrighted but freely used acknowledging the notices on the top of each source code. Documents are placed in public domain, though we may update the contents time to time. ---------- Major features of 1.3 version are: 1991/03/18 1. Allegro 4.0 is tested. Genera is updated to 8.0.1 2. Page mode operation is working. Interaction becomes quite faster. 3. Graphic operations / Graphic animation feature (about 10 frame per second) are installed. 4. Some widgets for graphic operations are programed. They are written as CLOS classes and methods. 5. A simple graphing toy is included in the demo directory. 6. Lots of bugs are fixed. 7. Provisions for the interface with Japanese language front-end are installed in YY-server. 8. yygrapher.lisp is included as a simple graphing tool in the yydemo directory. 9. Upon initialize-yy, lisp listener comes up. (this is only a changing the settings for a sample subwindow arrangement.) Also, you may try to get a drawing tool subwindow to test some drawing widgets of YYonX by typing a form to invoke it. ---------- Major features of 1.2 version are: 1990/11/15 1. YY-client is tested with Lucid 4.0 (Lucid CLOS), Allegro 3.1.13 (PCL), Allegro 3.1.17 (International version, PCL), and Symbolics Genera 8.0 (Symbolics CLOS). YY-server is mainly tested on Sun4 SunOS4.1 and X11R4. (And is working on several other UN*X and/or X11R3 like titan.) 2. Updated YY-server to cope with new features. 3. Updated YY-Protocol (between YY-server and YY-client) specification with the introduction of the page mode (for text oriented interaction) and viewport mode (for high speed graphic outputs). 4. Event processing, popup menu and several primitives are refined. 5. Many bug fixes and improvements of 1.11alpha. Further schedule: 0. Refinement of YYAPI specification. (Yes, we had not made enthusiastic efforts on improving API specification yet, since we like to adopt standards for external interfaces and had not enough time to take care of outlooks.) 1. More enhancements on Graphics, animation area. 2. UI tools enhancements. 3. Versions for mainframe Common Lisps are under development. 4. UK researchers told us that the Eulisp is running on top of YY. We will welcome such experimentation. 5. Attempt to start the discussion with CLIM to have an unified external specification. (YY and CLIM made a joint statement for it on 1990/02/14.) 6. Continuous trial to obtain much higher performance on the communication between YY-client process and YY-server process. ------------------------------------ No Migration but Co-existence ---------