ANNOUNCE: SLgtk 0.3.6

[Michael Noble <mnoble space mit edu>]

Announcement
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Versions 0.3.6 of SLgtk and 0.9.3 of SLIRP are now available at

          http://space.mit.edu/~mnoble/slgtk

These are very minor releases, bringing SLgtk and SLIRP to the brink
of being completely separable packages.  SLIRP now contains it's own
configure script, and new website at

          http://space.mit.edu/~mnoble/slirp

The website also contains slides for a talk given on "SLIRP-ing FORTRAN
into S-Lang".

Description
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The SLgtk package binds the Gtk2 and GtkExtra widget sets to the S-Lang
scripting language (www.s-lang.org).  SLgtk wraps over 2000 functions 
from Gtk2 and its constituent libraries, includes over 4000 lines of 
sample code in 40+ working guilets, provides a code generator (SLIRP)
which can be useful for building additional S-Lang modules.  Both SLgtk 
and SLIRP are reasonably documented for their age.

SLgtk also includes a visual version of the powerful S-Lang "where"
command, extensions to and performance enhancements for GtkExtra, and
a pixbuf loader for the FITS image file format widely used within
astronomy.

Regards,

-Michael S. Noble