ANNOUNCE

Announcing the release of a free (for research use) constraint solver:

Cassowary Constraint Solver for Smalltalk, C++, and Java
Version 0.55

Web Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary
Distribution: ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu:/pub/constraints/code/cassowary/
Contact: cassowary@cs.washington.edu

Greg J. Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> and
Alan Borning <borning@cs.washington.edu>
University of Washington
Computer Science and Engineering
15-December-1999

with Constraint Drawing Applet (CDA) by Michael Noth <noth@cs.washington.edu>

Cassowary is an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently
solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities.  Constraints may
be either requirements or preferences.  Client code specifies the
constraints to be maintained, and the solver updates the constrained
variables to have values that satisfy the constraints.

A technical report is included in the distribution that describes the
algorithm, interface, and implementation of the Cassowary solver.
Additionally, the distribution contains toy sample applications written
in Smalltalk, C++, Java, and Python, and a more complex example Java
applet, the "Constraint Drawing Application".

More information is available on our web page:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary

See README for more details on getting started using these packages.
See NEWS for a history of user-visible changes.
See LICENSE for legalese regarding use of this distribution.