Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Progress Update

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

Mmm, a good set of questions. And I admit that my progress updates so 
far haven't quite done a good job of separating the notable code 
changes with the minor ones. Then again I admit I haven't been thinking 
about public release, just sort of accepting the current state of 
things and muddling along in the code on my own. :)

For the recent stuff I suppose you could say:

	Work continues on the display abstraction branch of the project. 
Recent conquers
	include fonts, handling text and drawing. overhead_map_macintosh.cpp 
could be
	folded into overhead_map.cpp as it no longer has Mac-specific code, 
and HUD and
	terminals are on their last Mac legs. Next up: Working Picture 
resources into
	CBitmaps to put a stake through them.

We're doing behind the scenes geeky stuff, so we may as well mention 
it. I suspect it is really hard to appeal to the basic user without 
something actually on hand. My current builds hardly look any better 
than that last 0.3+ version I posted which first got Display 
Abstraction to its vindicating milestone: Fullspeed Hi-res.

-Jeremy Parsons

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 03:14  AM, Matt Lee wrote:

> Jeremy Parsons wrote:
>>  Wow, that was a bit of work.
>
> Hey, I just wanted to say a couple things about this...
>
> First, I think it is great that you are still working on AM, and I 
> genuinely enjoy reading your progress updates. Second, I'm still here 
> and I did recently do some minor updates to the Web site.
>
> That said, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to represent this progress 
> in the form of news blurbs on the site. I don't want visitors to see 
> that there haven't been any updates in months and conclude the project 
> is dead, since it obviously isn't. Yet the actual activity is pretty 
> "behind-the-scenes" and while interesting technically, probably 
> wouldn't attract attention from the average user.
>
> Should we assume for now that AM is mostly of interest to developers 
> and go ahead and post "Jeremy abstracted the Rect object into 
> CRectangle"? Or should we dumb it down a bit and just say "Work 
> continues with abstracting Macintosh-specific code into more general, 
> portable and modern code. More to come."?
>
> The once and future AM webmaster,
> Zebe.
>
>
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