Gravit 5.0.0 status

[Gerald Kaszuba]

Thanks to the efforts of Frank M, we've been pushing for a new release of Gravit. After a bit of confusion on my behalf we're aiming for version 0.5.0, ignoring the fact that I released a version on the Mac App Store as 0.5.0, which was meant to be 0.4.2.

I have updated the design and functionality of the Gravit website:

 - It is still: http://gravit.slowchop.com/

 - Has some better organisation with a gallery and a (privately editable) Wiki

 - The Wiki will have the updated details on building Gravit and any other relevant documentation

 - If you want to edit pages on the Wiki, let me know. I am hesitant to make public sign ups due to spammers and the time involved removing spam.

 - There is now a Google+ page for Gravit: https://plus.google.com/107724824744084522216

 - Please let me know if there are any problems with it

Frank M has optimised Gravit so much so that I have trouble recognising it :), including:

 - Massive optimisations in general

 - SSE and OpenMP support

 - Updated Visual C++ project files

 - Makefile for MinGW/GCC

 - Support for 64bit builds and more than 2GB of memory

I've been working on:

 - General cleanups

 - Support for Lua 5.1+

 - A windowing system (using Agar) for better usability (i.e. not having to use keyboard shortcuts for everything)

There is a list of issues on github for the short term plan:

 - https://github.com/gak/gravit/issues

Gerald

[Gerald Kaszuba]

Correction, it's 0.5.0, not 5.0.0!

Gerald