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Hi Folks,
It's been over a week since the end of Hackathon I and I'm sure some
of you are wondering when we'll release a BleedingEdge update or
1.99p. The answer is "real soon now". Once again, I am the gating
factor. I was out of town Friday through Sunday morning, I then was
asleep the rest of Sunday. I spent half of Monday attacking some of
my pending e-mail and the other half on personal matters. Today I
need to get all our pending orders out (have to go out and pick up
some spare floppy disks and get some more copies of the FAQ printed
up), hack through my pending e-mail and then I can get back to
finishing up some System 7 filesystem work and then release a
BleedingEdge version.
I don't want to release a BleedingEdge version before I have my
filesystem stuff finished because the "-system 7" option will be much
more useful with my filesystem mods.
Last week, before I left town, I did manage to successfully install
OS/2 (had to do it via floppies -- ick) and Caldera Network Desktop
(super simple installation -- no floppies) on "Presto", our portable
demo unit. I'm guessing that tracking down the HPFS related Executor
problems will now be fairly easy -- the hardest part will be finding
the time to do so.
Mat's still hard at work on the NEXTSTEP (re)port. Cotton is busy
developing some advanced error reporting code (no more cryptic
backtraces). Melissa is about a month away from moving to Albuquerque
and collectively we have a good idea of what our goals are for 2.0,
although we haven't drafted a specific 2.0 document yet. As soon as
we do, we'll run it by everyone here for comments.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com