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Hi Folks,

I'm back from a week vacation.  I had about 300 e-mail messages to  
read and about 60 of them require a response.  I'll be getting to my  
e-mail in the next couple of days.

While I was gone Mat found and fixed the problem that was preventing  
Executor/Linux from working with recent Linux kernels.  I spent a  
bunch of time working with the BCS PD-CD Vol. 13 Color and Graphics  
programs.  As such, 1.99d will soon be out and it already has the  
linux fix I've mentioned and a couple of "penetrating" (i.e. applies  
to more than one application) color bug fixes.

Beyond that, it's not clear what else 1.99d will have.  We don't want  
to delay it much because people with recent Linux kernels just can't  
run Executor.

As you may have noticed, with 1.99c, we began linking against XFree86  
3.1 libraries, which means you need to run XFree86 3.1 (or use the  
workaround described by someone else on this list).  While we're  
still making the Linux version usable, we plan to release only  
versions linked against 3.1.  After we have something a little more  
stable we may also release a version linked against 2.1, but my  
understanding is many major apps will be requiring 3.1 anyway.

I'm taking one more week off between Christmas and New Year's Day and  
then I'll be back into my largely 7-days a week schedule.

After I get caught up with my e-mail and also get 1.99d out the door,  
I'll post the beginning of Appendix A, and also a revised list of  
what we have left to do before 2.0 ships.  Mat posted a list of what  
features we still need to work on; the new list of what needs to be  
done in 2.0 will also mention the bugs that have to get fixed before  
we can consider freezing 2.0.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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