gm-tools-develop Mailing List for GM Tools

G'day,

GM Tools has made its second release now, and should now compile from the 
download. I am looking for some (any) feedback on this project, either from a 
developers viewpoint or potential end users. I am looking for constructive 
criticisms and your thoughts about what should go into the GM Tools. Answers 
to some of the following would be helpful.
Were you able to compile GM Tools from source? What difficulties did you have?
Were you able to run the GM Tools programs? What difficulties did you have?
What environment are you using to run/compile GM Tools?
What would you like GM Tools to be able to do for you?

Dan

-- 
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice 
versa.
 - Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love."

G'day,

The CVS repository at sourceforge for gm-tools is now up and running. I have 
done a checkout into a new directory and it compiles fine. All the absolute 
path information has been removed so it can be downloaded to any directory. 
Note that there are several directories off the cvs root so I suggest 
checking out the repository into a separate directory. I used:
mkdir gm-tools
cd gm-tools
cvs -d:ext:dan...@cv...:/cvsroot/gm-tools checkout .

You should get the following directories and files:
CVS/  - used by cvs
CVSROOT/  - cvs admin files
danio/  - the io wrappers
doc/  - documentation
gm_tools/  - the GM Tools applications
include/  - stuff for any program
makefile  - use make to make all the GM Tools
menu/  - a class that implements a menu at runtime
prompt/  - a class that implements a prompt
status_line/  - a class for displaying a status line at the bottom of the 
screen
.cvsignore - tells cvs what files to ignore

The next thing to tackle is making a wrapper to port the GM Tools to windows.

dan