[Scid-users] Re: Scid update

[Shane H. <sha...@pa...>]

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
>