# Library 1.0 Release Notes

## Release 0.9 March 20 1996

This is the first release of the PICS library code. Please see the libpics Overview for further information. There is very likely to be a flurrry of updates with this.

libpics release 0.9 is built. GOALS:

- Provide a simple interface to the parser for developers not using the libwww.
  A subset of the libpics source files have been designed to provide label parsing for applications that aren't based on libwww. These have a single interface (CSLUtils) and rely on a minimal set of list and string functions which may be provided by libwww or the application.
- Provide a PICS library for those developing apps on top of the libwww.
  The remainder of the libpics library is called CSLApp. It relies heavily on libwww and allows an application based on libwww to easily automate checking of label bureaus and document servers for ratings. It provides an interface for checking these against a user profile. A sample user profile is implemented, though it is intended as an example. Sample PICS users are available in Data. These users have passwords that match their usernames, which, in turn, match their file names.
- Use the LineMode browser to demonstrate use of libpics.
  The LineMode browser has been expanded to use CSLApp to load user profiles and make sure that subsequent documents may be viewed by these users. The LineMode browser may be used to check document servers and label bureaus for PICS functionality.