Version 0.3 of GraphLib is out - and more...

[Irene Lee]

Thank you Alex.  How's the research into the needs of the GIS crowd going?
--Irene

Alex Lancaster writes:
 > 
 > To fellow Swarmers,
 > 
 > As no-one has yet volunteered to take up the GraphLib maintenance job
 > in lieu of Manor, I am volunteering. I am releasing a version of
 > GraphLib which will work with Swarm 1.0.5, along with the original two
 > demos bank-0.3 and dynamicGraph-0.3. You can find links to them at:
 > 
 > http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/users/user-community.html
 > 
 > There are also new (Swarm 1.0.5 compatible releases) of BoolLib-0.3
 > and boolNet-0.3 on the ftp site. Direct links are also present on the
 > User Community page given in the URL above.
 > 
 > Of particular interest to some users is the new version of boolNet-0.3
 > also makes use of new features in GraphLib-0.3 such as the "dynamic"
 > "hiding" and "displaying" of the Canvas - as the underlying graph
 > structures continue run. In other words, the a graph is now
 > "probe-able" in a sense.
 > 
 > Hope folks find it useful.
 >                             --------
 > 
 > Libraries, conventions and user contributions...
 > 
 > This might also be a good place to mention a Swarm-ish standard I am
 > trying to develop for libraries and apps. If anyone has any comments
 > or has a better scheme, please do let me know.
 > 
 > One such convention which is *almost* a de-facto standard for 70-80%
 > of apps and libs at the moment, anyway, would be to say that libraries
 > should be in upper case, like:
 > 
 >  Breeder
 >  GraphLib
 >  BoolLib   etc.. (actually, with a convention, the Lib parts
 >                   of a name may actually be redundant, freeing
 >                   space for better names?)
 > 
 > and apps, should be in lowercase:
 > 
 >  heatbugs
 >  market etc..
 > 
 > I think the version number of the library, should be included in the
 > tar file as well as the expanded directory. So for example:
 > 
 >  Breeder-0.3.tar.gz and bank-0.3.tar.gz
 > 
 > will gunzip and untar into directories named, respectively:
 > 
 >  Breeder-0.3  and bank-0.3
 > 
 > I hope that this convention (or something like it - better suggestions
 > for conventions are welcomed!) should make identifying packages much
 > faster and easier for all concerned.
 > 
 >   --- Alex
 > 
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 >   Swarm Developer        |      web: http://www.santafe.edu/~alex
 >   Santa Fe Institute     |      tel: +1-(505) 984-8800 (ext 242)
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