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Re: WHEN???
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes:
Dan> When is ARDI going to release 1.99n? This is getting
Dan> discussing! I don't care about a few bugs. I mean, 1.99n was
Dan> sceduled to be released acouple weeks ago, not to mention
Dan> that 2.0 was supposed to be a year ago!
Almost all of ARDI's engineering work is done by three people: Mat
Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself. All three of us are working almost
all our waking hours on Executor. If bugs are found that are
"showstoppers", a release date will slip; there's almost no way to
speed things up since we're already working at full capacity. If, on
top of that, one of us has a mother-in-law rushed to the hospital,
that will only make things worse.
In the past when we've slipped I've periodically made guesses as to
when we'd be done. The problem with that strategy is more often than
not my guesses were incorrect. So this time, after announcing a slip
or two, I've been largely silent. This is a good thing, because
several showstoppers did rear their heads and my mother-in-law, did
wind up in the critical care unit.
We have one set of bug fixes we're waiting on from Cotton, and I still
have a bunch of installation issues to work on (improved FAQ, better
configution files, etc.). I suspect 1.99n will be out later today,
for suitably long definitions of today (i.e. I don't plan on going
home until it's out, although that's assuming my mother-in-law remains
stable).
Dan> Although it would be nice if a larger company such as IBM or
Dan> Microsoft had it integrated into their OSes. ARDI would get
Dan> alot of money for that. Not to mention the number of
Dan> engineers they could hire.
As I've mentioned before, I think 1.99n will be much more stable than
1.99m. Since we're back scrounging for money, this is a good thing.
It means we'll be able to show 1.99n to skeptical people and they
won't be put off by the file browser's erratic behaviour. We found
and fixed a lot more bugs in the browser than we thought were there.
Summary: 1.99n should be out in the next 24 hours, but it may not be.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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