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From: Shane H. <sha...@pa...> - 2004-01-30 18:47:14
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Hi all, I sent this yesterday and never saw it reach myself, so I'm resending it, sorry if everyone gets it twice. I'll try to get 3.6-beta1 uploaded later today NZ time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Hudson" <sha...@pa...> To: <sci...@li...> Subject: Scid update > Hi all, > > First of all, sorry for being so quiet this month. I had planned to get a > lot of Scid work in January, but unexpected deadlines for other software > I'm writing came up, so I've had had lots of late nights, but almost no > time for Scid. Hardware problems (had to reinstall lots of software) didn't > help either. February will be very different; I plan to release 3.6 in > early February and 3.7 (or at least a 3.7 beta or two) by the end of the > month. The website will be updated right after I send this email. > > I've held off a 3.6 beta until now because (although it has few changes for > the end user except several bugfixes and a redesigned comment editor > window) there has been a massive cleanup of the Tcl code: I've used more > namespaces and split the source code files into a heirarchy. This will make > it much easier to maintain and develop Scid in future. Expect 3.6-beta1 to > be released within 24-48 hours (it will be announced on this list), as I'm > finishing my code cleanup and testing it all today. > > Thank you to everyone who responded to the CD-ROM and ScidBase pages I > posted here in early January. I wasn't expecting to receive any donations > until the pages went "live" at the website (which is happening today), and > have been slowed by hardware problems (lucky I had good backups!) and all > the other work I had on in January. So there is a backlog of CDs to send, > which I will clear in the next few days; after that, there should be a > delay of no longer than 2-3 working days between receiving a donation and > sending a CD. Sorry again to all those who donated and are waiting; hope it > is worth the wait! > > Cheers, > Shane > |