[COSM-NEWS] Cosm News - 2000 July 8
Adam L. Beberg (beberg@mithral.com)
Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:22:08 -0500 (CDT)
Here we go.
CS-SDK goes medium-rare
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Well, I would say it's gone beta, but that term doesn't mean anything
anymore. Think of this as version 0.99, it works, but it's not "done".
* Doesn't have any known problems, so we need to find the unknown ones.
* I wanted to get it out before I go on my speaking trips to uci.edu and
kaist.ac.kr.
* The example isn't complete, so you'll have to do a little more work
then if the example was done, but not much. The example code should
easily scale up to about 5000 clients without much modification.
* We have people already using the CS-SDK doing final testing on their
projects. Since they are almost ready to go, CS-SDK has to be ready too.
* The CPU/OS layer it uses isn't 100% done, and the auditing and testing
isn't complete. This will hopefully be fixed shortly as people do more
porting to odd platforms, and we run the tests on them, but the auditing
will take time. The TODO.TXT is still rather long.
* It's still under the old Phase 1 license, not the new dual license.
Since this is a little more restrictive than the new one, this isn't a
problem. It still allows all research uses.
* Other projects were running out of things to copy :)
The cs-sdk.html in the cosm/v3/apps/cs-sdk directory of the CVS (and on
the web page) has far more information and everything you need to know
to get your project running. If you already have the CVS tree, just do a
`cvs up -z9`. If you don't, grab a snapshot of the CVS from
http://cosm.mithral.com/cvs.html - the .tgz files are "CVS ready" so you
don't need to do a checkout.
Official CS-SDK page: http://www.mithral.com/products/cs-sdk/
As usual, stop by #cosm on IRC/EFNet if you need help or just to hang
out.
Since this is only a medium-rare release, please do not broadcast the
news to places where a lot of people who can't understand "not done"
will read it. Every time we have to stop to explain what we're doing
instead of doing it, the end result gets delayed. Experienced coders
should have no problem using the CS-SDK as it is right now.
- Adam L. Beberg
Mithral Communications & Design, Inc.
The Cosm Project - http://cosm.mithral.com/
beberg@mithral.com - http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/