[tpabbrevia-developers] 3.05 When to release (I need your feedback)

[Robert L. \(P. Biz\) <rl...@pe...>]

So far my goals for the 3.05 have been met.

1.   No loss of functionality from 3.04
2.   More Stable than 3.04
3.   Spanning is complaint with PK/WinZip
4.   Spanning works better than it did before.(Yes it could still be better)

We have fixed over 40 bugs since the release of 3.04.  There are currently
21 bugs that are open in the SF.NET tracker system.

The question is... When should we release 3.05?

Do all bugs have to be fixed before the release?
I think the answer is no, but I want to hear others thoughts.

After 3.05 I will move to the work on 3.1 release where we can add an
Installer and update the docs, and work on new and existing bugs.

After 3.1 is released I am currently thinking of branching the code and
moving on to 4.X code base.

The goals with 4.X would be the following.

1. Low Level Interfaced based architecture.     (Basic Architecture plan has
been designed)
2. Improve Performance
3. Provide the 90% of the same public interfaces for the components.
4. Support 64 Bit ZIP Archives
5. Support WinZip Strong Encryption. (PKZip if possible)
6. Basic .NET Support

Robert Love