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From: kane@sonata.cc.purdue.edu
Subject: release of MiscKit 1.0 miscellanea
To: Don_Yacktman@byu.edu
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Don -
Do you plan on releasing the 1.0 MiscKit to the "other" important
NeXT archive servers (cs.orst, sonata.cc.purdue) as well as making it
available on ftp.byu.edu? If you would like to put it on sonata,
I can (unofficially of course) arrange for there to be space available
on the ftp disk when you decide to release it.
On the timing of the release, something occured to me tonight
(while writing a network-distributed program on Suns, go figure) that
it might be wise to (or have been wise) to release _before_ the
release of NEXTSTEP 3.2, so that the release doesn't get lost in the
general noisy period following a NeXT software release (people wonder
about new features/bug fixes, developers find new bugs, etc). This
is, of course, assuming there are no other good reasons for releasing
at a particular time. Something to consider perhaps.
A thought on putting the MiscKit on archive sites other than
only ftp.byu.edu: wider distribution. It may be more comforting to
have it "close to home". But submitting it to the two main archive
sites (for instance) gives:
1) people who might not see any announcement for the release
(no usenet access, of simply miss it) might see it on the
main archive sites, but probably wouldn't go looking for it
on ftp.byu.edu
2) world-wide distribution. cs.orst and sonata are mirrored
in many places; Europe in particular. A small effort to
submit them two places will result in them all over the world.
This also reduces net traffic to byu.edu
(hmmm, I was thinking there was a third point, but I've now forgotten it.)
Oh, yes, 3) It gets put somewhere where "archie" can know about it.
Some output:
waltz.cc> archie -s misck
No matches.
waltz.cc> archie -c Rocking
alice.fmi.uni-passau.de:/pub/NeXT/scores
FILE -rw-rw-r-- 2295 Dec 19 1991 RockingCarol.score.Z
spinner.gac.edu:/pub/next/music
FILE -rw-rw-r-- 2295 Dec 6 1990 RockingCarol.score.Z
sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/sounds/score
FILE -rw-r--r-- 2295 Dec 18 1991 RockingCarol.score.Z
nic.funet.fi:/pub/NeXT/music/scores
FILE -rw-r--r-- 2295 Mar 19 1992 RockingCarol.score.Z
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl:/pub2/next/Audio/scores
FILE -rw-rw-r-- 937 May 5 1992 RockingCarol.score.gz
Archie doesn't know about the MiscKit, but it does know about this
silly little Xmas carol score I created years ago (I picked this file
to test for at random). "archie" is a great help when you know a name
or part of a name but forgotten where something is.
well, some things to think about,
Christopher, eagerly awaiting the last license, etc.