[Getdp] New GetDP release: 1.0

Michael J. Rivard rivard at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 1 16:20:11 CEST 2004


Hi Christophe,

Thank you for open-sourcing GetDP. Could you please also make the source 
RPM available?

Best Regards,
Mike

Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Hi folks - We are very pleased to announce the release of GetDP 1.0--the
> first public release of GetDP in more than a year, and, more
> importantly, the first release of GetDP under the GNU General Public
> License.
> 
> Most of the changes since the last release are related to the removal of
> non-free parts of the code and to the merging of new developments from
> Ruth Sabariego and Johan Gyselinck (most of which are not yet documented).
> 
> Version 1.0 also marks the end of major new developments in the C
> codebase by Patrick and myself, as we are convinced that a rewrite in
> C++ will lead to a substantially shorter (and easier to understand)
> code. This is a long term goal, though, so the current version will
> continue to evolve for quite a while (albeit at a slower pace) and all
> code contributions/bug fixes/etc. are of course still very much welcome!
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
> PS: We would like to start a repository of user examples for GetDP.
> Since this is a time-consuming process and neither Patrick nor I
> have the time to build it from scratch, we need your help. If you have
> *complete*, *working* and *documented* examples that you want to share
> with the community, please send them to us, together with the conditions
> you place on their use and redistribution. We will centralize all the
> contributions and make them available on the web site.
> 
>