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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 15:31:19 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Autodocs 3.1 available
- Message-ID: <13213654@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <4ga53q$r7o@news.u-bordeaux.fr>, Nils Skoruppa <skoruppa@athena.ceremab.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
- > I am a little bit amused when watching all
- > these discussions about the Autodocs 3.1.
- >
- > Fact is that since at least 9 months nor
- > Autodocs neither any other programmrs documentation
- > is available.
- >
- > Even worse, apart from stereotypic "be patient"
- > there is no comment of AT on this.
- >
- > It is evident (even for AT) that the larger part of the
- > Amiga programmers community is starting to become
- > upset, frustrated, angry ... about this situation.
- >
- > Suddenly. a few days ago, Olaf Barthel is asking in
- > the news group how the people want the Autodocs ---
- > however, without specifying a date or any other information
- > when or how the Autodocs will be available.
- >
- > It seems pretty clear to me that the posting of O. Barthel
- > is nothing than a bone given to the dog to keep it quiet.
-
- You have no idea how Amiga Technologies works internally and how
- tasks are assigned (lucky you!).
-
- > I do not know, what internal difficulties AT prevent from
- > making available the Autodocs, and I understand that these
- > internal difficulties are "vertraulich" (using a term of
- > P. Kittel which I grabbed in this group).
- > Nevertheless, it should be possible to give some honest
- > statement to the Amiga community instead of now starting
- > with this "How do you want the Autodocs" - garbage.
-
- Hey, that's is the general attitude towards the whole thing: they're
- sitting on whatever they're sitting, but they're not doing anything sensible,
- hush up the facts and generally try to hide that they don't give a damn about
- the Amiga's future. The ADSP not yet taking shape, the inavailability of the
- complete NDK and the RKMs being out of print and all that stuff: it was and
- is getting delayed because of other items which take priority. You don't like
- it, I don't like, nobody likes it, but this is how it happened. There are
- far less people working at Amiga Technologies in the positions Commodore used
- to have assigned to technical support, acquisition and developer support.
- Wake up folks, it will take time for Amiga Technologies to get to the same
- level of `quality' Commodore used to deliver. It's not as if the last few
- guys & gals at Commodore just packed their stuff into crates, nailed labels
- onto them "Software engineering", "Technical support", "Fragile" & "This
- side up" so Amiga Technologies would just have to break them open in Germany,
- take the stuff out et voila, could continue where Commodore stopped. Hell,
- there are 700 tapes from the Commodore labs & warehouse nobody really knows
- what's on them. We don't know what happened to all the DevCon folders, we
- don't know where all the manuscripts for the RKMs are, we don't know what
- happened to all the debugging tools and the list continues. We're already
- working on that stuff for almost half a year. We probably would have come
- further *IF* there were more people to give us a hand, but there aren't
- any. So there.
- As for the Autodocs discussion, the point has been made how programmers
- want to see them: any way at all, but *NOW* please. But you don't just want
- to see the stuff recycled CATS issued three years ago, don't you?
-
- > Personally, I decided for now not to buy any further Amiga equipment,
- > and to leave what I have entirely to the kids --- at least
- > some games are still available.
-
- Fatalistic, are we?
-
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