ANNOUNCE

	The P/2-X/2-Project


This project aims at providing a POS*X compliant subsystem for OS/2 in
order to help porting and writing portable software on OS/2.

A first version (libExt) provides missing extensions to the existing
EMX libraries; a future version will port and integrate BSD libraries as
a standalone environment. The final decision of the upcoming
version's name has not yet been made ...

Current Situation:
The "open source" movement currently gains momentum. For most
individual OS/2 users and developers it is essential to profit from
this momentum. For many years emx has been the working horse here:
Not only because of it's gcc port.
Essentially because of it's highly portable, largely open standards
conformant C Library. This one has proved reliability and excellence.
Let us try to extend it, implementing those interfaces _we_ have
always been missing.

What to do:
We aim in the first place at providing developers with a complete
OpenSource (in our case we will have a BSD-like license)
set of BSD/Un*x interfaces and development tools. Take part
and get on board now! See webpage/docs. Let us coordinate past individual
efforts to merge them to a quite usable library. Many complicated work
has already been done, namely to support the forthcoming XFree86OS/2 4.0. 
You might already have implemented other complicated and missing API's. 
Contribute them, please! And feel free to criticise and to stress-test
what we already can offer!

BTW, an alpha version of libExt has just been uploaded to hobbes
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu). Check out for "p2alpha1.zip"!


Thanks and Bye,

-- 
Arnd Hanses,
Alexander Mai,
Holger Veit
Stefan Neis