Math is Pretty

We released the source to LINA a little over a week ago, a major milestone for both our project and our company. For those who have been following, there is now:

• a GIT repository
• a RoadMap
• User and developer forums
• Bug Database
• Wikis
• Technoloy Overview
• Howtos

The Roadmap enables members of the community to track releases and participate in the direction of LINA. Each release is on a short two to three week development schedule. The next three releases are:

• Release 0.71 – fixing build bugs on different platforms, adding checkpoints during the build, and fixing a few remaining bugs from our transition to native Windows binaries
• Release 0.72 – improving the tools used by developers to create LINA packages (we can make them radically simpler – essentially automatic – if we make them a smarter in analyzing installs).
• Release 0.73 – a subset of the LINA APIs and developer binaries for easy installs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

0.73 is the critical release for us – it’s the point at which we will have LINA to a state that the larger Open Source community can easily use LINA to create universal binaries of their programs for every platform.