Posted by Esteban A. Maringolo-2 on May 06, 2005; 12:57pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Welcome-to-the-Dolphin-6-Beta-Programme-tp3373762p3373915.html

Andy Bower escribió:
> Sean,
>
>
>>I have an issue with the software: I don't have it yet!

This is definitively an issue, I don't have it either. ;-)

> Yes, we know, we know. The delay has been, in part, caused by the idea
> of getting the literal filer to replace the old resource mechanism in
> the image.
 > Basically, it has taken about a week to do this but the
> change is now complete.

Wow, my seed germinated. Thank you for the provision of fertile
ground and agriculture labor ;-).

> To some it may seem foolhardy making such an extreme change so close to
> a beta release, however we judged it as being important enough to do
> so. We needed to do it now (rather than after beta 1) to avoid
> incompatible versions of D6 packages being confusing during the beta.

One week is blazing speed to me. Then people say that "smalltalk is
slow". :-D

> This is the current status:
> 1) 55 tests failing out of 3000.
> 2) Deploying our working image to a Dolphin Pro install doesn't work.
> 3) The installer is not ready.
> 4) The VC has had an overhaul and undo is not yet working and there are
> minor bugs.

> We'll make a judgement about which of these issues can be ignored for
> the first beta. I hope we aren't that far now...

Great. We'll have to stay tuned.

Any other "trailer" ala IdeaSpace is available?

Best regards.

--
Esteban.