2 Feb 2003 chakie   » (Master)  Been a while.   Much has
happened since the last update. We finally seem to be getting
LOS to work the way it should, and also be be faster. A new guy,
Cristian, has materialized and he has a lot of good ideas, and
above all, code to back the ideas up. We might end up including
his LOS-checking C module just because it's so fast and would
directly eliminate a big bottleneck.  I'm a bit worried however
about including C code, as it has to get compiled somehow on all
platforms we have. I know Linux can do it out of the box, but
can a OSX or a Windows thingie do it? At least the latter ships
with no compilers and absolutely nothing useful in the way of
development tools, and I doubt too many have installed a
compiler. The other alteranative is to prepare precompiled
versions of the module, but that's a big task. We need
precompiled versions for all the OS:es, probably at least two
Python versions (2.2 and 2.3/2.x by the time we release), which
in the end amounts to a decent amount