| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 22 Apr 2001 at 22:20:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
Hello Don
On 22-Apr-01, you wrote:
> On 22-Apr-01, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
>>> However, although 3.5 was pretty rough, 3.9 is really rather good.
>>> Thanks mainly to all the bug fixes by Olaf and others.
>>
>> What bugfixes? Bugfixes to the bugs they added in 3.5. I rest my case,
>> and I think Stefan does as well.
>
> No, bug fixes to bugs that in some cases went back to 1.3.
Like what?!
> Olaf has done a very good job. (And others, of course.)
>
> AmigaOS 3.9 is the most stable version so far. I've been using Amigas
> since version 1.2, and I think 3.9 is a major achievement.
Bullshit. 3.9 is a bundle of naff media players and bugfixes they should
never have had to make. OS3.5 should have fixed the OS and brought
us new functionality that we needed, but it just brought us functionality
and NEW bugs (at least 5 of which aren't fixed in the BB2 release, which
knocks at least 3 bullet-pointed features on the head)
> Forget H&P. Olaf was already working on the source code before they
> took over resposibility for managing the project.
I know that far better than you do, Don :P
> Perhaps this is why they still refuse to release the History file.
No, they refuse to release the history files (that is, cvs commit logs)
because they're full of derogatory and derisory comments about H&P
staff and policies. Cleaning them up would be effort. Effort they think
isn't worth it because they think we don't want or need them: but we
do.
Now they've got a HUGE excuse NOT to release them, the entire OS
is going to be reshuffled and ported to PPC, and Workbench (the
centrepoint of every OS3.5 change) completely rewritten somewhere
along the line.
And.. watch H&P be the people behind the Workbench rewrite. And
the PPC kernel. And WarpOS (argh!) support, however buggy it may
be. And we'll be forced to like it, and use StormC 4.x. Bleh.. I've got
a nasty taste in my mouth..
Thanks
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