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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA01656 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 17:55:36 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id SAA01542; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:55:33 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sSZmU-000YbmC; Sun, 2 Jul 95 18:54 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sSZmT-00000BC; Sun, 2 Jul 95 18:54 MDT Message-Id: <m0sSZmT-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 95 18:54 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: dan_g@ix.netcom.com (Dan Guisinger) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: WHEN??? In-Reply-To: <199507030000.RAA22526@ix3.ix.netcom.com> References: <199507030000.RAA22526@ix3.ix.netcom.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes: Dan> When is ARDI going to release 1.99n? This is getting Dan> discussing! I don't care about a few bugs. I mean, 1.99n was Dan> sceduled to be released acouple weeks ago, not to mention Dan> that 2.0 was supposed to be a year ago! Almost all of ARDI's engineering work is done by three people: Mat Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself. All three of us are working almost all our waking hours on Executor. If bugs are found that are "showstoppers", a release date will slip; there's almost no way to speed things up since we're already working at full capacity. If, on top of that, one of us has a mother-in-law rushed to the hospital, that will only make things worse. In the past when we've slipped I've periodically made guesses as to when we'd be done. The problem with that strategy is more often than not my guesses were incorrect. So this time, after announcing a slip or two, I've been largely silent. This is a good thing, because several showstoppers did rear their heads and my mother-in-law, did wind up in the critical care unit. We have one set of bug fixes we're waiting on from Cotton, and I still have a bunch of installation issues to work on (improved FAQ, better configution files, etc.). I suspect 1.99n will be out later today, for suitably long definitions of today (i.e. I don't plan on going home until it's out, although that's assuming my mother-in-law remains stable). Dan> Although it would be nice if a larger company such as IBM or Dan> Microsoft had it integrated into their OSes. ARDI would get Dan> alot of money for that. Not to mention the number of Dan> engineers they could hire. As I've mentioned before, I think 1.99n will be much more stable than 1.99m. Since we're back scrounging for money, this is a good thing. It means we'll be able to show 1.99n to skeptical people and they won't be put off by the file browser's erratic behaviour. We found and fixed a lot more bugs in the browser than we thought were there. Summary: 1.99n should be out in the next 24 hours, but it may not be. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com