if you are interested in playing with what I've got so far, you can checkout and build the code from cvs. This command will get the current version of the Frontier source with the Python integration:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/frontierkernel co -r sidewinder-branch Frontier

(I'm sure that's going to wrap badly -- those of you who cannot figure out how to format the command correctly (or how to correct the mistakes I might have made while writing it down) probably should not be playing with the code. This is not meant to sound snotty, just that the code is rough, and you need to know how to deal with alpha level code.)

Of course, this assumes that you are comfortable with cvs and building your own code.

If you are using OSX 10.3 and have the developer tools installed, you can build it by going to the build_XCode directory and typing the command:

xcodebuild -activetarget -activebuildstyle

This will cause it to churn for a while, and produce a Frontier.app file in the build subdirectory.

This is alpha level code. It could annihilate all of your children, change the climate, kick your dog, or maybe just spoil your fruit. More importantly, it is possible it could erase data. So back up your stuff. If you have the developer tools installed, you need to know that the knives are sharp and you should never stop being careful.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Note that this isn't an announcement of a certain level of functionality or milestone, it's simply meant to remind people that all of this stuff is already available -- I'm checking it in as I develop it, so you can watch me checkin bugs, bad code, bad algorithms, as well as some decent code. I write shitty code, with bugs. (hopefully people will get that reference)

It's an interesting experience, coding in public. I don't feel that embarrassed, but I can say that I worry more about what I write there than I do about what I put in the weblog. I care about my code. I get paid for the code. I write for fun, but the coding is the skill I've worked the hardest on.

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