Re: Majordomo 1.94.5

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>]

>>>>> "BH" == Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> writes:

BH> How distant/near is the light at the end of the tunnel?

Well, I'm getting pretty close to running my lists with it.  That doesn't
mean it's getting anywhere near replacing 1.94, because there are things I
haven't implemented (digests) and of course because things like MajorCool
don't work with it.  And the more things that get (officially) added to
1.94, the farther away a 2.0 release becomes because there's more to be
backwards compatible with.  And things are moving in directions that I may
not be able to be directly compatible with, because I already do these
things and I do them differently.

But to answer your question, remember that I feel safe calling it alpha
when I can run my lists with it.  Perhaps that's stronger than your
criteria, in which case you could probably call the more recent releases
alpha.  Now that I have resend working beyond the level that 1.94 could
ever support I'm going to push to fill those final holes (basically, get,
index, info/intro, and some better help messages) and move one of my
unsuspecting lists over.  I expect to be able to do this within 30 days,
perhaps less depending on how my free time goes.

BH> I didn't think 1.94.5 (or even 1.95) was out of the question when you
BH> were in the "this software is not even 'alpha', so don't ask when"
BH> mode, but obviously things are starting to congeal...

Well, it's really up to Chan; he is of course free to do what he thinks is
appropriate.  Many moons ago, when I decided to do a rewrite instead of
1.95, we basically decided that the 1.x line ended with 1.94.x.
Unfortunately that was when I was under the erroneous assumption that there
would be more interest in 2.0 and thus less 2.0 development time.  I didn't
expect to still be working alone and playing with pre-alphas a year later.
(Not that I think it's anything but my fault that this is so.  I've never
been a good motivator, and I did take a good-sized break in there.)

 - J<