YYonX 1.2 is now OK with Symbolics Genera, Lucid CL, and Allegro CL.
--- Release Note for YYonX verion 1.2 --- 1990/11/05
Masayuki Ida,
the YY project leader, CSRL
Aoyama Gakuin University
YYonX version 1.2 is now ready for anonymous FTP
at ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp (133.2.1.5) under YY directory.
There are several files. (Sizes for documents may change, sorry.)
Nov 6 12:34 ReleaseNote.1.2
3823 Nov 6 12:34 WHAT.IS.YYonX
159764 Nov 6 12:55 client.1.2.tar.Z
220155 Nov 6 12:55 client.1.2.tar.Z.uu
6146 Nov 6 12:55 demo.1.2.tar.Z
8501 Nov 6 12:55 demo.1.2.tar.Z.uu
247807 Nov 6 12:55 doc.1.2.tar.Z
341456 Nov 6 12:55 doc.1.2.tar.Z.uu
1033 Nov 6 12:34 how-to-install-yy-client
663 Nov 6 12:34 how-to-install-yy-server
124737 Nov 6 12:55 server.1.2.tar.Z
171893 Nov 6 12:55 server.1.2.tar.Z.uu
1. ReleaseNote.1.2 is this file. (plain text file)
2. WHAT.IS.YYonX contains the explanation of YYonX. (plain text file)
Please read this file before unpack the source tar files.
3. client.1.2.tar.Z(.uu) contains the compressed tar file for
yyclient directory.
4. server.1.2.tar.Z(.uu) contains the compressed tar file for
yyserver directory.
5. doc.1.2.tar.Z(.uu) contains the compressed tar file for
yydoc directory. There are YY-protol documents and YYAPI
documents. (YYAPI documents will be updated shortly.)
6. demo.1.2.tar.Z(.uu) contains the compressed tar file for
yydemo directory. (Currently, only one file is there.)
7. how-to-install-yy-client (plain text file) contains the direction
to install yy-client.
8. how-to-install-yy-server (plain text file) contains the direction
to install yy-server.
Sources are copyrighted but freely used acknowledging the notices
on the top of each source code.
Documents are placed in public domain, though we may update
the contents time to time.
Major features of 1.2 version are:
1. YY-client is tested with Lucid 4.0 (Lucid CLOS), Allegro 3.1.13 (PCL),
Allegro 3.1.17 (International version, PCL), and Symbolics Genera 8.0
(Symbolics CLOS).
YY-server is mainly tested on Sun4 SunOS4.1 and X11R4.
(And is working on several other UN*X and/or X11R3 like titan.)
2. Updated YY-server to cope with new features.
3. Updated YY-Protocol (between YY-server and YY-client) specification
with the introduction of the page mode (for text oriented interaction)
and viewport mode (for high speed graphic outputs).
4. Event processing, popup menu and several primitives are refined.
5. Many bug fixes and improvements of 1.11alpha.
Further schedule:
0. Refinement of YYAPI specification.
(Yes, we had not made enthusiastic efforts on improving API specification
yet, since we like to adopt standards for external interfaces and
had not enough time to take care of outlooks.)
1. More enhancements on Graphics, animation area.
2. UI tools enhancements.
3. Versions for mainframe Common Lisps are under development.
4. UK researchers told us that the Eulisp is running on top of YY.
We will welcome such experimentation.
5. Attempt to start the discussion with CLIM to have an unified
external specification. (YY and CLIM made a joint statement for it
on 1990/02/14.)
6. Continuous trial to obtain much higher performance on the
communication between YY-client process and YY-server process.
------------------------------------ No Migration but Co-existence ---------
In article <···················@candygram.lanl.gov> ······@candygram.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) writes:
>OK, without getting the README, what IS YYonX and what will it do for us?
OK.
I put a part of the contents of 'WHAT.IS.YYonX' file:
Keisuke 'Keiko' Tanaka
·······@csrl.aoyama.ac.jp
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What is YYonX
1990/11/05
by Masayuki Ida
1. What is YY ?
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YY is a network oriented window toolkit for Common Lisp.
YYonX is an implementation of YY for X-window.
2. YYonX characteristics ?
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The Major Characteristics are:
1. It is a pilot implementation of YY for X.
2. It used a server/client model.
YY-server is a X-client for low level stuffs.
YY-client is a X-client for an application part and API.
3. CLOS oriented portable tool kit.
4. Never make a Xlib (CLX) call by user.
5. There is YY-Protocol for the communication between YY-server and
YY-client.
YY-Protocol enables the co-operation of YY-server and YY-client
over TCP/IP, and has a highly compressed format.
6. For example, you may use a SUN3/60 X-server, a SUN4/260 YY-server,
and a YY-client on a different machine to execute YYonX based application.
7. Tested X-windows are X11R4, X11R3.
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