what's new at www.vectaport.com

December 2000

December 31st

Vectaport Inc., a California corporation formed Jan 1st 1994, has been dissolved. vectaport.com carries on as a domain name owned and operated by Scott Johnston, and as an advertisement for his consulting services. Watch ivtools.org for future news on ivtools.

December 9th

ivtools-0.9 released.

August 2000

August 25th

ivtools-0.8.4 released.

June 2000

June 19th

Uploaded all the outstanding bug reports and feature request to SourceForge.

June 14th

vhclmaps-0.7.5 released with many improvements to the scripting language of comdraw (Recent Changes).
Also, take a look at the vhclmaps SourceForge page.

June 12th

ivtools-0.8.3 released with many improvements to the various map viewers and servers (Recent Changes).
Also, take a look at the ivtools SourceForge page.

April 2000

April 28th

ivtools-0.8.2 released.

January 2000

January 31st

vhclmaps-0.7.4 released.

January 18th

ivtools-0.8 is released!

December 1999

December 17th

CVS available for ivtools from SourceForge with web-based browsing.

December 16th

Four mailing lists set up for ivtools at SourceForge

December 3rd

Starting to make use of an ivtools project page at sourceforge.net (from VA Linux). So far there is a survey question on copyleft and ivtools.

November 1999

November 16th

Here is an annotated list of this year's nominees for the 1999 Free Software Award. It gives an idea of the depth and breadth of the open-source/free-software movement.

November 11th

patch to add raster support to the idraw output format of pstoedit.

September 1999

September 15th

Brian Marshall put up a piece that goes a long way toward explaining the two-tier business model of Vectaport, The Cash and the Calling

September 14th

ivtools-0.7.10 now available, with new support for compiling on Windows NT using Cygwin

July 1999

July 30th

ivtools-0.7.9 now available

June 1999

June 30th

added a web page that clarifies Vectaport's position on ivtools license immutability.

June 17th

web pages on how to configure web browsers for launching drawing editors and map viewers as helper apps.

June 15th

web pages on things to do with ivtools drawing editors added to ivtools documentation

June 14th

vhclmaps-0.7.3 released.

June 10th

ivtools-0.7.8 released, with support for compiling with glibc-2.1 and RedHat 6.0

May 1999

May 24th

New corporate sponsor, IET Inc., added to ivtools and vhclmaps home pages.

May 7th

Revised vhclmaps web pages.

May 3rd

Developer release of ivtools and vhclmaps.

April 1999

April 9th

Revised instructions for building Vectaport software on Solaris 2.6

March 1999

Mar 24th

ivtools-0.7.5 released, download here.

Mar 3rd

tar file of html documentation for ivtools released.

February 1999

Feb 27th

ivtools-0.7.4 released.

Feb 15th

ivtools class tree converted to a web page for indexing into online class documentation.

PERCEPS extracted class documentation for the FrameUnidraw class library.

Feb 11th

Much expanded discussion of building ivtools on commercial Unix'es in the ivtools FAQ.

Feb 8th

PERCEPS extracted class documentation for the ComUnidraw class library.

Feb 5th

"done" and "started" graphics added to ivtools things-to-do page.

Feb 3rd

easier navigation of ivmaps FAQ via new index. New section for mapserv.

January 1999

Jan 27th

ivtools-0.7.3 announced. New documentation, dialog box work, and dataflow

Jan 25th

Complete PERCEPS extracted class documentation for the OverlayUnidraw class library.

Jan 20th

Improved PERCEPS extracted class documentation for the ComTerp class library.

Jan 14th

InterViews 3.1 man pages cross-indexed with ivtools class pages.

Jan 12th

InterViews 3.1 man pages online.

Jan 11th

Documentation Page added to ivtools, and the 3.1 Reference Manual on-line (no frames).

Jan 8th

Improved class documentation with derived-class links, accurate include file names, and class/method comments extracted by PERCEPS for Attribute, GraphUnidraw, and half of the OverlayUnidraw library.

December 1998

Dec 29th

Missing comtop-0.1.1.tgz uploaded (a starter program for making your own derived comterp).

Dec 23rd

ivtools-0.7.2 released with new flipbook slideshow mechanism and random jelly-bean drawing capability.

Dec 4th

ivtools-0.7.1 released with greater flexibility in export commands.

Dec 2nd

Added entries to the source building questions of the ivtools FAQ.

Added HI-MASS, NEFCON, SCAT, and TAE Plus to the table of InterViews applications.

Minor fix to ivtools-0.7/src/utils/Imakefile for versions of gcc that can't auto-detect and handle C++ code, extra release notes for ivtools-0.7.

Dec 1st