DSDN

OK, I've kicked the tyres on DSDN, fiddled a bit, fixed a few bugs (yes,
really!) and uploaded the complete DSDN folder to....

http://www.smalltalk.vispa.com/files/dsdn.zip

It's about 35 KiB in size.  Unzip the file to your Dolphin 6 image
folder and install the package.  It should have no prerequisites.  It's
probably best if you remove any existing DSDN folder before unzipping
this one, _but remember_ to save any extra documentation or news archive
files you have copied into the old folders before deleting them.

The main things you will notice are that the WIKI and EducationCentre
tabs are lacking files.  The WIKI folder will have to wait until the new
OA WIKI is up and running.  The EducationCentre folder will have to wait
until (a) I can see if I can convert the EC to a compatible format and
(b) OA give me permission to write a converter (assuming I can) to do so.

Any problems please ask here or mail me or Bill Schwab.

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Ian Bartholomew wrote:
> OK, I've kicked the tyres on DSDN, fiddled a bit, fixed a few bugs (yes,
> really!) and uploaded the complete DSDN folder to....
>
> http://www.smalltalk.vispa.com/files/dsdn.zip

Thanks Ian it works great!

In D5 I've more than once accidentally clicked on the date column in the
"Archive" tab and the tool would spend the next 5 minutes sorting the
archive by date.

I am very pleased to see that this now takes a second or even less. :)

Best Regards,
Bernhard

Bernhard,

> In D5 I've more than once accidentally clicked on the date column in the
> "Archive" tab and the tool would spend the next 5 minutes sorting the
> archive by date.
>
> I am very pleased to see that this now takes a second or even less. :)

I think you can give OA all the credit for this.  Dolphin 5 was a bit
slow in sorting collections that were already in order, especially
reverse order.  Dolphin 6 has increased sorting speed, most noticeably
where the collection is already sorted.

If you load DSDN 5 into Dolphin 6 then you will see that it still shows
the speed improvement.  FWIW, you could also see this using DSDN on D5,
if you sorted on the Author field (to randomise the TimeStamps) and then
sorted on the TimeStamp field it was much faster.

I don't know if the change in sorting is the whole story though, the
improvement in DSDN seems a bit _too_ much for that.

So, three cheers for OA <fx: ra ra ra>

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