[Vis5d-users] [ANNOUNCE] Vis5d+

Dear Vis5d+ users and developers,

I'd like to announce that I've set up a "Vis5d+" web page and project on
SourceForge, at:

		http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/

For those of you who have used my "autoconf" version of Vis5d (5.2.<x>a),
"Vis5d+" is the new name, and Vis5d+ 1.0 is available for immediate
download with a couple of bug-fixes compared to Vis5d 5.2.5a.

However, it's my hope that this project will also attract other
developers.  SourceForge provides free version control (CVS), mailing
lists, bug-tracking, and other services in addition to web and ftp
hosting, so I'm hoping that in the future Vis5d+ will become a central
place for development of enhanced versions of Vis5d.

Last I checked, there were six(!) separate enhanced versions of Vis5d,
that for one reason or another weren't merged into the official version.
I hope that some of them will get merged into Vis5d+ at some point, and
that future branchings will be forestalled.

I'll also continue to track changes in the mainline Vis5d sources and
share bugfixes where possible.

Your comments are appreciated by me, and I think by the Vis5d developers
as well.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson

PS. One immediate project for non-programmers is to update the manual.  
It would be nice to have an HTML version with links, subsections,
pictures, etcetera, preferably generated from something like TeXinfo or
DocBook that can also be used to generate nice printed versions.