[interfacekit] Messaging Milestone

I'm very pleased to announce the completion of an important milestone 
(to me, at least =): the first successful test of messaging using 
libopenbeos.so.  There are many key BeAPI classes involved in this, 
including BHandler, BLooper, BMessage, and BMessenger (just to name a 
few).  Virtually all the active members of the "App/Interface/Support 
Kits and app_server" team and several folks that aren't "officially" 
members contributed.  Way to go, guys!! =)  The very simple test has 
been checked into the tree under 
src/tests/kits/app/messaging/first_light.  What was really amazing to me 
is once I had written the test, it just *worked*.  I didn't have to 
debug *anything*.  This stands as a testament to the hard work everyone 
has put in and the usefulness of the enormous number of unit tests that 
have validated the code throughout development.

There's still plenty of testing and debugging work left to do, but this 
is so exciting to me that I had to share with everybody.  I've been 
waiting and working for this for well over a year, and I'm so stoked I 
can barely see straight! ;)

Thank you and good night!

e

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the 
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
        -William Pitt, British prime-minister (1759-1806)

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