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- From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: MiNT 0.99 source on atari.archive.umich.edu...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.035803.18930@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:58:03 GMT
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- In article <108166@bu.edu> anneklin@acs.bu.edu (Patricia Anne) writes:
-
- >Is this an 'official' release? Should I be using this?
-
- The answer to the first question is "sort of," and the answer to the second
- one is "that depends on how lucky you're feeling" :-).
-
- I was in a hurry; zillions of people have been asking for updated source,
- but I simply haven't had time to do a 'real' release. So I threw together
- the files from my directory and sent them up. In the process I left out
- asm.y by mistake; and the usual README file didn't get written. Sorry
- about those omissions; I will try to correct them, but it will be some
- time before I can get a real, organized release including the Lattice
- and PureC support, plus docs. MultiTOS is consuming an enormous amount
- of time; as with any software project, the closer it comes to release
- the more urgent are the bug reports.
-
- So consider this an "interim" release, for people who just can't wait
- and who don't mind risking life, limb, and hard disk while testing
- new software :-).
-
- Also: as Mike pointed out in his message, this is also a source code
- only release. Please observe this restriction. As beta software, MiNT 0.99
- is suitable for use only by experienced programmers, and I *don't* want
- people misunderstanding its status at all. Moreover, this release contains
- Atari code as well as my own, so observing the restrictions on distribution
- is doubly important -- how well people respect the conditions will determine
- whether or not we will release future versions of the MiNT source code
- to the general public.
-
- Regards,
- Eric
-