Entries from April 2007

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Comments   2   Date Arrow  April 22, 2007 at 3:33pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Just watch this :

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244

Anything said is wasted….

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Down with the flu :(

Comments   2   Date Arrow  April 17, 2007 at 9:46pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I’m in bed with the flu today. Such an off-timed thing to happen It was probably due to the great weather instability we experience the last days… The temperature droped from 27C to 10C in a day!…

I hope it doesn’t keep me down for more than 2 days…

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24 hours and 3GB later…

Comments   3   Date Arrow  April 12, 2007 at 3:57pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Its been almost 24 hours since the release of Sylphis3D and the sourceforge shows that 3GBytes were downloaded already about 10 e-mails expressing unbounded appreciation and some very nice comments. People are already jumping in to help with the website, doing changes and cleaning up the mess!

I would like to thank every one of you […]

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The wait is over… Sylphis3D is open source!

Comments   11   Date Arrow  April 11, 2007 at 5:29pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I just release the source to Sylphis3D! Check out the story at the Developer Network.

The wait is over! Sylphis3D is officially released under the GNU GPL ver.2 (with the classpath exception for those that need closed source solutions). The engine weights at around 45000 lines of source code written in C++ and Python.

The source code […]

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Tomorrow the Release

Comments   2   Date Arrow  April 10, 2007 at 10:58pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

The time has come… tomorrow is the release day of Sylphis3D as an open source project. I’m very excited for this new begining! This is going to be my biggest contribution to the open source community until now.

The source that is going to be released counts ~45000 lines of code in C++ and Python counted […]

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Open Sourcing Progress Update

Comments   5   Date Arrow  April 7, 2007 at 5:21pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

As an update, I inform you that I’m pasting the license on the source files and getting the release ready. I’m going to publish on the sourceforge site where the Sylphis Generalized Triangle optimizer is published at the CVS. The engine is going to be hosted using SVN. Maybe there will be downloadable versions too, […]

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Opensource License

Comments   9   Date Arrow  April 5, 2007 at 5:27pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

The last days I’m spending most of my time considering open source licenses and what would be the appropriate license for Sylphis3D. I must say that it is a very brain-melting procedure. I can see now why I could never became a lawyer!

I initially started considering two licenses, the GPL and the BSD. These […]

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