Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!NewsNG.Chicago.Qual.Net!usc!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.insinc.net!stimpy.cal.sfl.net!thor.cal.sfl.net!news.myrias.com!eddore.myrias.com!not-for-mail From: gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Subject: GNO v2.0.6 Lines: 86 Message-ID: <6uck5g$2k8@eddore.myrias.com> Date: 23 Sep 1998 23:09:04 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.161.248.2 X-Trace: thor.cal.sfl.net 906613753 198.161.248.2 (Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:09:13 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:09:13 MDT Organization: Shaw Fiberlink Ltd. (Calgary) Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2.gno:6732 Many people have been wondering for a long time, "When will GNO v2.0.6 be released?". Some have questioned if it will ever be released. Here is the status; in short, it's a mixture of good news and slightly bad news. First, the bad news. I had wanted the release of GNO v2.0.6 to come as a fairly integrated package where the installation process was (almost) completely automated, everything was available as source that could be built using the current compilers, et al. While one of my goals is still to get the base GNO distribution to this state, it is not there yet. I had also commented to some people in email and on Delphi that I wanted to make a major GNO release by KFest '98. Well, a residential move, family medical problems, a corporate move, and other things got in the way. KFest '98 has come and gone, and GNO still isn't released. Now the good news. It's time to make a much overdue major GNO release. There are a few stages to such a release. Over the next few weeks you can expect the following to happen: - a binary release will be available via anonymous ftp. This, while still lacking in certain respects, is what most people will want to eventually download. The initial one may merely be the most recent binary release distributed to the the GNO Developers' group. - most sources will become available via anonymous cvs and anonymous ftp. Not all sources will be available (such as those for the modified Byteworks' libraries) because of their proprietary nature, however the majority of sources will be available. Initially sources by ftp will be available only as individual source files, but I will get it set up so that you can get NuFX (GShrinkit) archives of portions of the source directory tree. Sources will not be available as a single *.shk file because there are too many of them. - Documentation (web pages, reference manual, et cetera) will be updated. This is actually an ongoing process, so if you have any suggestions/corrections for the documentation, please let me know. Other things also have to get sorted out, like the list of what has still to be done, the necessary procedures for those who want to make contributions, and so forth. This will be done as we have time available. This won't happen overnight, though, as I am involved in yet another residential move. (Landlord problems prompted us to finally go and buy a house, and just moved last weekend -- stuff is still in flux.) Don't get your hopes up too high though. There are still some major problems with GNO v2.0.6, mostly because there's "so much work, so little time". For example, there are some core components (like syslogd) that were rewritten but still require work. There are certain aspects of the GNO v2.0.6 kernel that are less stable than the 2.0.4 kernel; of course, there are also kernel aspects which are *more* stable in v2.0.6. However, in the spirit of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", I hope that things will go better after the sources are on general release. Please don't continally flood me with email about when each stage is coming. As each stage is ready, I'll post a notice on comp.sys.apple2.gno and the Delphi A2Pro forum. Speaking of which, I usually host a GNO programmers' real time conference on Delphi Mondays and Thursdays from 10pm to midnight, Eastern time. While I may not be around for the next couple of weeks, feel free to drop in anytime; I should be back in October. I would like to finish by thanking the GNO Development team, especially Dave Tribby who has been churning out utility updates and bug fixes like crazy. (The list of contributers is in the current GNO Overview and Installation Reference Manual at http://www.gno.org/~gno/refs.html.) So keep tuned to comp.sys.apple2.gno and Delphi A2Pro for updates. Devin -- Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Robert Heinlein