ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) (06/22/89)
From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Date: 21 Jun 89 19:38:20 GMT
Cnews looks like a great package (ask me in two days) but it will need
some extensions before it is as useful as B news. With TMNN going
through another major revision phase a lot of us will be using C news
and extending it to meet the needs at our sites.
Beg pardon. TMNN is NOT going through a major revision (which, to me,
implies some redesign and/or new features). It is going through a badly
needed major debugging. Our mantra through the whole process has been
"No New Features!"
Ted has all of the bad pointer/corruption problems out of expire and
rnews (we think). I am working on the readers. I think you'll see the
next release in a week or so, and I am certain that it will be much more
reliable.
AMBAR
ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu {mit-eddie,uunet}!bloom-beacon!ambardavidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (07/04/89)
In article <AMBAR.89Jun21195246@binkley.mit.edu> ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes: | Beg pardon. TMNN is NOT going through a major revision (which, to me, | implies some redesign and/or new features). It is going through a badly | needed major debugging. Our mantra through the whole process has been | "No New Features!" I guess we use the term differently. I am using revise to mean "change". If you do the same thing another way or a new thing, the chances of having a program exhibit unexpected behavior seems proportional to the number of changed lines. You previously posted a note about the many bugs you were fixing, that implies a lower confidence level to me. Of course I'm mortal, and even when I write perfectly legal code it breaks on buggy compilers. It would be nice if it still worked on SysV and 16 bit machines after it's "debugged." -- - bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.uucp) GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345