[cells-announce] Cells II, Celtic, and "Cello now under Cells"

[Kenny Tilton]

text below was copied from the notes at the top of the cell-cultures CVS 
project:

  http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cell-cultures/?cvsroot=cells

Other cvs projects alongside cell-cultures have short life-expectancies. 
Likewise,  as soon as I figure out how to shut down the common-lisp 
Cello mailing lists, I will do so, so anyone wanting to track Cello 
should slide over to the Cells list.

"Kenny Tilton
July 6, 20004

This CVS release inaugurates the collection of all my Cells-related code 
under one CVS project (./cells/cell-cultures), in turn under one 
common-lisp.net project, Cells. From now on the Cello project under 
common-lisp.net is quiesced, tho the web page is still informative and 
fun screen shots can be found in the FTP area.

This release also introduces two significant new code releases. First, a 
substantial reworking of Cell internals known informally as Cells II. 
Second, Celtic, a derived work of Peter Herth's LTk project marrying 
Common Lisp and TCl/Tk. Celtic adds Cells to the mix (and deviates 
wildly from LTk so cannot be combined with that.

A third subproject (a directory, in fact), Clyde (derived from "CL IDE") 
currently just contains a GUI wrapper for the CL apropos-list function, 
but could soon see a port of ClouCell, currently a Cello-based graphical 
object inspector.

Several other subprojects offer utilities required by most Cell 
projects. ASDF-ACLPROJ is Thomas Burdick's creation, which teaches ASDF 
about AllegroCL project files (their home-brewed defsystem). I use 
AllegroCL and cannot be trusted to keep parallel ASDF definition files 
current with the ACL project files. UTILS-KT is just what it looks like, 
very low-level stuff I use everywhere. FFI-EXTENDER makes it easier for 
me to whip up FFI bindings using UFFI (which, btw, you will also need).

Pure binding subprojects are functional as far as they go, but are 
usually incomplete because I punt when they get hard, until I need the 
challenging bindings. These include:

cl-opengl -- OpenGL.
cl-openal -- bindings to OpenAL. Think "OpenGL for audio".
cl-ftgl -- FTGL, FreeType for OpenGL
cl-magick -- ImageMagick, for image files such as JPG, and vector or 
bitmapped graphics.

That just leaves Cello, the OpenGL/Freeglut-based CL GUI. Where LTk and 
Celtic offer simpler, higher-level (but still powerful), and native 
GUIs, Cello is Lisp all the way down and offers terrific graphical power 
thx to direct OpenGL capabilities accelerated by hardware GPUs."

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