-- I just uploaded ck200406.zip and .sig to the cells ftp area. contents next, but here's a scoop: "ck" is short for Code Kenny. Anything found in such an upload is simply my working code base. I have to back off the surprising amount of time it takes to worry about Cells/Cello qua open source projects (maintaining ASD files I do not use for actual work, sorting out things which break under Lispworks) and worry about making money for a while. FYI, the LPR files are text files one can read to see which files get loaded in which order, and which projects depend on which other projects. btw, if anyone sends in patches to make the code compatible with some other environment I will work those into my code base, i am just not going to push that myself at this point.

-- I for one will be doing Cello under the Cells project on common-lisp.net until further notice. As I feared, too much overlap.

-- the version of Cells in this zip is what I have been calling Cells II, because there was a fundamental re-working of some crucial internals. Vanilla semantics of Cells is unchanged, and edge cases should behave better. Internals themselves are insanely better. And for the first time I came up with a somewhat formal spec for Cells which guided the internals rewrite, which I will be sharing RSN.

-- included also in the zip is Cells-LTk, derived from Peter Hersh's LTk. I started with the idea of wrapping LTk, but that was going to be a mess, so I just subsituted a widget framework based on Cells for the original. I will look next week at whether Cello can be simply given a Tk backend.

-- the included Cello uses display lists for everything, and runs five times faster. This work has made FTGL (FreeType in OpenGL) misbehave quite a bit, but I have some ideas as to why.

kenny