Release Candidate

Folks,

As you know, we had hoped to release D5 before Smalltalk Solutions but it's
just not been possible. However, we have the next best thing. We have
produced a Release Candidate of D5 and this is available from:

http://www.object-arts.com/Downloads5.htm

Your existing beta serial numbers will work for this release until the end
of the month.

We are intending to open up the RC to users outside the beta programme.
Basically, if someone has purchased an upgrade or a full copy of Dolphin 4
since 1st January then they will automatically be upgraded to D5 free of
charge. These people will be notified of the RC software availability via an
e-mail and an announcement in the normal public Dolphin newsgroup.

Once you see that announcement appear we can move our D5 discussions over
into the public newsgroup to stir some interest for the GA release.
Obviously, existing threads here should continue but new threads should
probably go public. We intend to announce the RC availability sometime in
the next few days while we are a Smalltalk Solutions, so please watch out
for this.

It is our intention to get the final release out for Friday 3rd May.

Best Regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
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Andy,

> It is our intention to get the final release out for Friday 3rd May.

Does "for" mean "before"?. I only ask as RC1 expires on the previous
Wednesday - 1/5/2002 ....

Ian

Hi Andy,

Congratulations with the RC!

>
> Once you see that announcement appear we can move our D5 discussions over
> into the public newsgroup to stir some interest for the GA release.
> Obviously, existing threads here should continue but new threads should
> probably go public.
>

There were some very interesting threads in this beta newsgroup with a lot
of knowledge in them. It would be a shame if these were lost. Would it be
possible to add them (the non-beta-bug ones) to Ian's archives so that they
become available to DSDN?

Thanks

Ted

Andy,

Congrats on getting it out.

Small thing with the installer.  Using the .msi installation of Pro, then
using the "custom" option, the include XP support sub-installation was
initially true, even though this is a W2K box.  In beta4 that sub-option was
fixed at false.

> Andy Bower

    -- chris

Chris,

> Small thing with the installer.  Using the .msi installation of Pro, then
> using the "custom" option, the include XP support sub-installation was
> initially true, even though this is a W2K box.  In beta4 that sub-option
was
> fixed at false.

I looked into getting the installer to auto-detect the OS but it was all too
hard (at least for me at that time of day). Anyway we left it with that
option on by default since for non-XP OSs it makes no difference.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
http://www.object-arts.com

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Ian,

> > It is our intention to get the final release out for Friday 3rd May.
>
> Does "for" mean "before"?. I only ask as RC1 expires on the previous
> Wednesday - 1/5/2002 ....

Well, we were hoping in those two days you'll be able to work yourself up
into a frenzy of anticipation (no doubt wondering what user interface
changes we'll be able to introduce next).

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
http://www.object-arts.com

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> Well, we were hoping in those two days you'll be able to work yourself up
> into a frenzy of anticipation (no doubt wondering what user interface
> changes we'll be able to introduce next).

<gggg>

    -- chris

Ian,

> > Does "for" mean "before"?. I only ask as RC1 expires on the previous
> > Wednesday - 1/5/2002 ....
>
> Well, we were hoping in those two days you'll be able to work yourself up
> into a frenzy of anticipation (no doubt wondering what user interface
> changes we'll be able to introduce next).

Just kidding.. we'll keep you up to date with keys as necessary to allow
uninterrupted service.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
http://www.object-arts.com

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Ted,

> There were some very interesting threads in this beta newsgroup with a lot
> of knowledge in them. It would be a shame if these were lost. Would it be
> possible to add them (the non-beta-bug ones) to Ian's archives so that
they
> become available to DSDN?

I'm quite happy to create an archive version, a 5 second job using my
sophisticated (sarcasm!) archive creation code, however I'm not so sure it
should be publicly available. Apart from the problem of removing the bug
related posts (_not_ a 5 second job) the fact that the group was created
privately might mean that it could contain comments that would not have been
made in a more public medium.

Ian

Ian Bartholomew wrote:
> I'm quite happy to create an archive version, a 5 second job using my
> sophisticated (sarcasm!) archive creation code, however I'm not so sure it
> should be publicly available. Apart from the problem of removing the bug
> related posts (_not_ a 5 second job) the fact that the group was created
> privately might mean that it could contain comments that would not have been
> made in a more public medium.

e.g. the activation discussion. I for one would prefer some of my posts
not to go wider.

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Ian, Ted

> > There were some very interesting threads in this beta newsgroup with a
lot
> > of knowledge in them. It would be a shame if these were lost. Would it
be
> > possible to add them (the non-beta-bug ones) to Ian's archives so that
> they
> > become available to DSDN?
>
> I'm quite happy to create an archive version, a 5 second job using my
> sophisticated (sarcasm!) archive creation code, however I'm not so sure it
> should be publicly available. Apart from the problem of removing the bug
> related posts (_not_ a 5 second job) the fact that the group was created
> privately might mean that it could contain comments that would not have
been
> made in a more public medium.

I agree with Ian here and therefore I think it would be easiest if the beta
group postings didn't make it into the public archive.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
http://www.object-arts.com

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