On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:
well, that is alright, &c. BUT WHEN WILL 3.0 RELEASE? it has been imminent for at least 2 years.
It'll be released when it's done, dammit! And it's almost done! Currently, I'm tracking down a few bugs, and a few details need to get solidified, but other than that I have it working on my desktop and I use it almost every day.
It's still got some testing to do, and it needs to get packaged up. And it still needs to get cleaned up a lot (the UI ain't pretty -- even compared to 2.6.2!) This is what is taking so long.
Come on, EVERY SINGLE LINE OF CODE WAS RE-WRITTEN! And there are about 60000 lines in PGP3! That's a lot of work, and the 70-30/80-20/90-10 rule is hitting hard.
It's coming. We're trying to get it out as fast as we can. But we're not going to sacrifice quality for a little bit of time.
-derek
Relax Derek, Attila hasn't been bitting you in public over this. Patience is not one of his virtues sometimes, but I have never known him to be purposefully rude and pushy, unless invited. I can understand that a 60K line project from the ground up can be most tedious exercise; sometimes a real mountain to climb. I've done this dance for 17+ years in many venues. However, in terms of volume, you are complaining at someone whose last project was 1 million+ lines of code; most of which he wrote himself. Volume and 90/10 doesn't impress Attila. Instead of carping at him out of frustration; why not ask him for some help? ...Paul