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[ANN] Second alpha release of d2c CodeWarrior plugin available

Dear Dylan Enthusiast,

I am glad to announce the availability of the second alpha version of the
d2c v2.3.3 translator plugin for the CodeWarrior IDE.

Gwydion Dylan is a Dylan to C language translator.
"Gwydion Dylan PPC" is a compiler plugin for the Metrowerks CodeWarrior
integrated development environment, derived from the open source code base
of the Gwydion Dylan project.

Please visit http://www.GwydionDylan.org for details.
Please visit http://www.metrowerks.com for details to CodeWarrior.

This is a power-user release.
You have to know what you do.
Bear in mind that this is an alpha quality release.
Timely release was more important than thorough testing.
Several bugs are known.
It is strongly recommended that you have MacsBug installed.
It is strongly recommended that you have experience with mac-d2c v2.3.3r2.

Requirements:

- Power Macintosh with 96 MB RAM
- CodeWarrior Pro 5.3 for Mac (earlier versions may work, but not tested)
- 50 MB memory partition assigned to CodeWarrior

Features:

- Translator plugin
- Preference panel
- Gwydion Dylan Release 2.3.3 functionality
- Increased reliability over v2.3.3a1

Non-Features:

- Preference panel not fully functional
- no support library files
- No source code (yet)

Download:

- ftp://berlin.ccc.de/pub/gd/MacOS/d2cPlugin2.3.3a2.sit.hqx
    (there may be a delay while the package moves here from incoming)
- iDisk: public area of: gabor, file: d2cPlugin2.3.3a2.sit,
   at: http://itools.mac.com/itoolsmain.html

Bugs:

- please mail to the author and maintainer, mailto:gabor@mac.com
- success stories also welcome :-)

Thanks:

- Gwydion Dylan Maintainers, for great work,
- Rob Myers, for mac-d2c and being my first tester,
- Gareth Baker, for testing,
- Silke Klein, for patience.

Other:

- Dylan(tm) is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
- Metrowerks(tm) and CodeWarrior(R) are (registered) trademarks of
  Metrowerks, Inc.
- Read the release notes.
- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Enjoy,

    Gabor