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Subject: not quite Appendix A, but a start
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Hi Folks,
As you may know, I've been under the weather this week, as has Vaune,
our technical support person. I thought Bill Goldman was out due to illness
as well, but only because I forgot that he's on vacation until the beginning
of next year.
Anyway, while I've been "resting", I've also put our commercial library (and
a bunch of other stuff not listed here) through an in-house version of Executor
that will sometime be 1.99e. All the testing was done under Executor/Linux,
and there's no guarantee that every version of 1.99e will behave the same
way when it's released. Still, the following document gives you some idea
of what commercial apps we'll be testing under Executor as we plow towards
a release of 2.0.
There is no guarantee that any particular application on this list will work
when 2.0 comes out, although we'll be keeping this list current and cleaning
it up and republishing it as we progress.
[NOTE: enough bugs have been fixed since 1.99d was released that you
will *not* be able to duplicate many of our successes listed below]
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
While we're still finding and fixing major bugs related to our color
implementation, we're *not* doing much extensive testing of applications.
In general, right now we're looking for and fixing as many color related
(and an occasional filesystem related) bugs. After we have those under
control, we'll hire some student workers and do more exhaustive testing.
The purpose of this list currently is to give you an idea of what we're
working on and the general class that various applications fit into. The
possible classes are:
Green -- thoroughly tested; no bugs that would prevent the vast
majority of users from using this application.
Yellow -- less well tested or known bugs that prevent some
functionality from being usable. At a minimum, the
application must be able to read and display its
own document types.
Orange -- Will take mouse and keyboard events, but has enough
major bugs to make the application unusable.
Red -- Will not come up, but is still considered a target for
a better class by the time 2.0 ships.
Black -- Will not come up no, nor is it expected to when 2.0
ships (with possible System 7 spoofing exceptions).
Ether -- Application hasn't been tested yet but has already been
purchased or ordered
This file should only contain listings for "commercial" software.
Shareware, Demoware and Freeware will be in a separate file.
The comments after the "--" may contain jargon that only ARDI employees