We have finally revived the nightly build process for JOAL. You should now be able to download the most recent nightly build directly from the JOAL home page. Java Web Start binaries should follow soon. Please post if you see any problems with the nightly builds.
Ken, I’m concerned that anyone interested in JOAL is going to be confused by the multiple versions that have been kicked around and the lack “identification” for the current version. I’d like to suggest that it be called “JOAL2006”, and then version identified by date. “Nightly builds” implies daily changes, but somehow I suspect you aren’t writing JOAL code every day. How is anyone supposed to know when they should download a new version? Is there any “change log” available that people could view to see what’s been changed (and when)?
In general we are going to do official “release builds” which can be launched via Java Web Start, so people should just be able to reference our extension JNLP like they do with JOGL. Once this is done the only people who should have to manually download JOAL will be developers, and they can optionally choose the most recent official release build or the current nightly build if there is some change they need.
You can subscribe to the cvs@joal.dev.java.net mailing list to watch the checkins going in to the JOAL tree. When we post more official release builds we’ll try to post here and roll up the described changes. If you have suggestions on how to provide this information better / more simply please post.