brothers@dead.rutgers.edu (Laurence R. Brothers) (07/30/88)
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Hi, this is an official omega announcement.... | | |
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1) omega can be ftp-ed from john, paul, george, or ringo .rutgers.edu.
compressed uuencoded chopped up tars can be gotten from
~ftp/pub/brothers/newesttars, while ascii files can be gotten from
~ftp/pub/brothers/newestfiles. Unfortunately, you'll have
to get all the tar files due to their mangled state, where you
can simply get the plain ascii files separately as needed.
2) I condone specific bug reports/fixes such as just went out over the
bugs newsgroup, but warn that there is no guarantee that they work.
I urge users/hackers to restrain their natural urge to distribute
publically the new features they hack as I want to maintain
*some* version control (this is the secondary purpose of the license,
the primary one to ensure that no one makes any money off the game).
3) I have little time right now for preparing a full set of patches
and in any event feel I might as well wait for all the reports that
will no doubt pour in. Version 0.72 should be identical to 0.71
but for bugfixes -- I will maintain diffs, and post them when
ready. I imagine a month or two for version 0.72.
4) Suggestions for new features are still welcome, but their
implementation will be deferred until 0.80, which I anticipate
having X toolkit support (unless OPEN LOOK turns out to have a
particularly neat toolkit itself).
-Laurence R. Brothers
(brothers@paul.rutgers.edu)
(quasar@ctt.bellcore.com)
* Terrestrial Erect Smiley (uses prisms).