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- Scott Parkinson
- The Hutchison Avenue Software Corp.,
- 3481 Aylmer, Suite B,
- Montreal, Qc., CANADA
- H2X 2B4
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- tel: 514/499-2067
- fax: 514/499-3666
- net: scott@hasc.ca
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- WSC Investment Services and Hutchison Avenue Software announce the GnatsKit,
- a freeware front end bundle for the GNU bug tracking utility.
-
-
- Q: What is the GnatsKit?
-
- A: The GnatsKit consists of a bundle, an application, and a library,
- with source to all. You can use the GnatsKit in several ways: you
- can simply use the application, or if you want to include Gnats
- report-making capability into your own custom application, you
- simply link against the library and include the bundle into your
- application. You don't need to do anything else, since the objects
- in the library will automatically modify your menu to add the "Bug
- Report..." menu item. It's as simple as it gets, since you don't
- have to write a single line of code to include powerful bug-reporting
- functionality into your application!
-
-
- Q: Who owns this kit? Are there any licensing fees?
-
- A: This kit was developed by Hutchison Avenue Software for WSC
- Investment Services, a Wall St. financial services company. WSC is
- the copyright holder, WSC has generously decided to donate the kit
- into the public domain, but with a catch! If you enhance the kit,
- then they ask that you keep them up to date with your fixes and
- improvements.
-
-
- Q: OK, fine, but what the %$*&! is 'GNATS' ?
-
- A: Gnats is the GNU bug tracking utility. Installing Gnats on your system
- gives you a centralized email-accessable bug report database. The
- intent of the Gnats Kit was to provide functionality like
- BugNeXT.app, but centered around the Gnats database! Gnats has many
- features, including search by email for your clients (so they can
- find out the status of bug fixes without bothering your
- programmers), autorespond (where Gnats automatically informs the
- submitter that their bug report has been received), and others.
- Combining Gnats with the Gnats Kit gives you a world of
- functionality, for an unbeatable price.
-
-
- Q: Hey, I thought you said this was free?
-
- A: I did. It is. :-). You get the full source to the Gnats Kit, and
- don't have to pay a dime.
-
-
- Q: So, there's no catch involved?
-
- A: Well, I didn't say that! In order to compile the source, you'll need
- the HascKit, which is our reusable library of Objective C objects.
- It's pretty cool, and will be announced soon, although it's possible
- to purchase pre-release versions, and have the amount discounted from
- the price of the full release when it's ready... The HascKit has all
- the cool objects that show up in our custom and shrink-wrap apps like
- Phone.app and Invoice.app (amongst others). You still get a full
- double-fat binary for everything in the Gnats Kit though, so you don't
- have to compile anything if you don't want to.
-
-
- Q: So, when will you have a triple-fat version ready?
-
- A: As soon as our HP machine arrives (any day now).
-
-
- Q: Where can I pick this stuff up?
-
- A: You can get the full source and binaries to the GnatsKit, and preliminary
- HascKit documentation and examples (remember, the HascKit is a commercial
- product, and the GnatsKit is freeware) at:
-
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/GnatsKit-1.0.gtar.gz
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/HK-Demos-0.5-gtar.gz
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/HK-Documentation-0.5-gtar.gz
-
- ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/GnatsKit-1.0.gtar.gz
- ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/HK-Demos-0.5-gtar.gz
- ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/HK-Documentation-0.5-gtar.gz
-
- (Note: hasc.ca is a slow link)
- ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/GnatsKit-1.0.gtar.gz
- ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/HK-Demos-0.5-gtar.gz
- ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/HK-Documentation-0.5-gtar.gz
-
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- About Hutchison Avenue Software:
-
- Hutchison was founded three years ago by McGill University graduates to
- perform NEXTSTEP software consulting and development for the financial
- services marketplace, and continues to offer excellence in software
- development. Hutchison's clients include Hewlett Packard, WSC Investment
- Services, Telerate Systems, Inc., The American Student Loan Guarantor,
- Equinox Capital Management, and Bell Canada.
-