On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:21:41PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, John Fortin wrote:
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> > > > Are we going to wait for DirectX updates before announcing
> > > > the release candidate?
> > >
> > > Depends on the timeframe - I'd say if it's below two weeks extra time, I'd
> > > rather wait. Gives much broader audience.
> > >
Hi, I know I'm new to the list so my opinion is perhaps not so
valuable. In fact I don't understand what ramifications
an earlier release might have. Would the DirectX portion
just be missing until next release or are there more drastic
consequences?
In any case I thought I'd share my viewpoint. I don't
mind seeing releases more often. A full release
without DirectX soon and a new point release with DirectX
a month later doesn't bother me. In fact some of our
engineers feel better shipping project that have had several
point releases to fix bugs. My intended use is to
include the ggi library in the SDK we use at Lineo
(At least for internal use for now.)
It helps me to convince others to try GGI out if
I can provide this earlier. In order to get a new package
into one of our releases we have a significant time
between adding the package and testing the SDK before
we can get it out to customers. For this reason I like
seeing project point releases more often. I can get a package
included and if there are any point releases before it goes
to test and the new features are important I upgrade.
(My management probably has a slightly different view of this.)
The pitfall of always waiting for the next great feature
before having a release is that sometimes the development
takes longer than expected and the release date slips
a long time...
If you have full control over the development of the
feature sometimes a small slip is OK. If you don't
have control, expect a real delay.
In my case I'll start by including the current snapshot
anyway, so for now I'm fine, but a final release in the
near future wouldn't hurt either.
Thanks for all the great work.
Regards,
Curtis Veit
Lineo Inc. Where Open Meets Smart
