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Re: Executor 1.99n
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes:
Dan> Is Executor 1.99n supposed to be out this week? I always end
Dan> up passing the beta versions out at school, but I can't do
Dan> that after Thursday.
Sorry. It won't be out until next weekend at earliest. We still
think we can make next weekend, though. So far we've fixed tons of
bugs, totally revamped the blitter, got Bolo running, got Arashi
limping, allow access to D:, E:, etc. under DOS, allow access to DOS
filesystems under Linux, have adjusted E/D to allow printing multiple
times within one session,and have done a bunch of work on allowing
fonts and DAs to be installed by Loser. We've also written and
integrated, but not yet debugged the code that allows Loser to format
floppies.
We still have a little new code to write (finish font/da installation,
international keyboard mapping, code to allow apps to detect Executor
attributes) and a bunch more bug fixing to do, then we need to hunt
for new bugs that our mods have introduced.
Dan> Also, how many more 1.99x beta versions are there going to
Dan> be, and what will change in each one?
Hard to say. Here are some of the major things that still need to be
added. They may all be added to 1.99o, or we may have to split them
into 1.99o and 1.99p.
NEXTSTEP port
SVGAlib port (will be released soon after NEXTSTEP port)
16 and 32 bit per pixel support
Deferred Task Manager spoofing
depth setting through cmd-shift-5
a few misc. color traps
color picker
nicer error messages
some system 7 support
system 7 filesystem calls
apple events
system 7 standard file package mods
Assuming our current feature set for 1.99n is implemented and the
above features have been added, then we'll be done with adding new
features and be able to work a little more on debugging tools and
software acquisition and then we'll have our hackathon, where we do
nothing but get apps to run better under Executor. The hackathon
period will last five weeks (two with Cotton in Albquerque, one with
Cotton back in Boston, two more with Cotton in Albuquerque) and then
we'll have a six week beta period, where we will fix remaining
egregious bugs and log all other bugs.
All told it's looking like 2.0 will be in beta in mid August and will
be in production in early October. This will be approximately an 18
month slip from our original projection of when 2.0 would ship, but
that prediction was made before 1.0 was even in production, and back
then we were envisioning a 2.0 that would have had a few more features
but would have lacked 32-bit color QuickDraw (only the "old color
model" was going to be supported), would have had less System 7
support, would have run fewer applications and would have had a slower
synthetic CPU and a slower blitter.
--Cliff
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