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- >>>>> "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
-
-