survex CVS code

[John P N Pybus]

Hi,

I've been playing with the survex CVS code, and have been having trouble 
getting things to work.

One thing to note is that I had a terrible time trying to get it to 
check out from your repository.  At home over 56k it just wouldn't 
complete.  Even over the high bandwidth of SuperJanet it rarely 
completes, sometimes my cvs process hangs, sometimes it completes but 
sevral directories are empty (src/msvc is a favorite).  It took me about 
ten tries to finally get copies of HEAD and the 1.1 branch! [this was 
using cvs 1.11.2 on RedHat9]

I managed to build the 1.1 project.  When I run aven it will load a 
survey, and allow me to manipulate it but very quickly freezes -- 
locking up X windows totally in the process. Aven's controlling tyy 
gives the output:

OpenGL error: Stack Overflow: call glCallList in function DrawList

(or similar, I had to copy this from  ahand scribbled note)

This may well be my settings/Gl libs so I'm going to play with it some 
more.  Though it happens reliably (or rather unreliably :-) with or 
without DRI enabled in XFree86.

Are you intending openGL to be a requirement for aven 1.1?  It would be 
very good to be able to optionally run it with the old line rendering 
(albeit with more limited funcionality).

Yours,

John