ivtools-1.2: first phase of drawing chat

ivtools-1.2 is now available.  Almost all of the work since the last 
release (1.1.3) has been on a drawing chat mechanism.  This is like a 
shared whiteboard, with granularity pushed down to the level of 
individual graphics and editing commands.  Much work has been done:   
peer-to-peer connection, remote graphics creation, and an efficient 
mutual exclusion graphics selection that will allow parallel editing of 
a shared drawing.  Much work remains:  graphic state transmission, 
complete support for editing commands, and an extension of the mutual 
exclusion mechanism to govern the few required global permissions 
(connection, creation, grouping, sorting).

If this interests you, build this release with ACE support, then 
subscribe to the ivtools-dev mailing list to ask questions, give 
advice, or best of all, volunteer.

Scott Johnston
http://www.ivtools.org



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