On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, d. hall wrote:
<Daniel Koepke>
>> I'm not an official spokesperson for Jeremy (or George for that
>> matter), but the official line has always been: It'll be out when it
>> is done, or when Jeremy says it is done. If it's not done, then it
>> won't be out. I'd much rather have one release that fixed a great
>> deal of the problems than have to manually patch one into my Circle
>> code, then turn around two weeks later and patch it again. So, just
>> way and be patient about it. Unless you've ever tried maintaining a
>> public code base--or even putting one together--you have no right to
>> snap at anyone.
>
>Which means you advocate the Cathedral style of programming.
Not necessarily. If you notice he mentions that is how we do things.
CircleMUD has never been truly cathedral in that you can see the various
patchlevels and even the testing patchlevel if you're lucky.
>If you compare the gains of FSF Emacs vs. Linux, I wonder if that argument
>will stand the test of time.
Point may be moot shortly.
>Personally having CircleMUD 3.0.99 Pre-Release Alpha-Beta-Gamma would be
>sorta spiffy.
Oh please no...not at this rate, I don't need a career.
--
George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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