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Article #359Re: Serious bug fix
From: John Deragon
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:11
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:11
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In article <1992Dec24.233506.28199@nwnexus.WA.COM> ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan R oy) writes: > bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce) writes>> >> - Seriously, the game will be unstable until you reach a point where >> - it's more interesting to fix non-lethal bugs than to add cool new >> - features. And that'll probably never happen. Well, I am at the point now where I am *not* adding any new code, (well, at least not any new *features*) I agree with you completely that most people are happy just slapping new coats of paint (features) onto and old house (GB). I personally would *much* rather be doing new development then renovation. Where I used to work, we would have to draw straws to see who would renovate old code, and who would get to do new development. I am at the point now where GB has been around long enough that I see no-one wants to renovate, so I kinda started doing it myself. > (Seeker being one of them) to form a group of programmers to move GB > coding ahead. >> - There may be *older* versions of the game that get completely >> - debugged and stabilized, but nobody'll want to play them because >> - they lack the latest and greatest. C'est la joue. Well, I am working with the 5.2 code. And it is not like there is a patch or new release of GB every week. Jeeze... >I was going to keep things quiet for a few more months, but I couldn't >resist replying to your message. :) Work _IS_ being done daily, and >you'll see GB stable within 6 months. Hopefully it'll get a large, Wow... talk about loose lips.... *grin* I think ninja need to be taught how to keep his lips closed.... "Vee have wayz to keep zee lips shut, dear ninza!, Vee have our wayz!" Sigh... (I dont t hink the newsgroup has seen so much traffic in quite some time! Seeker.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!gateway From: deragon@JETHRO.CS.NYU.EDU (John Deragon) Newsgroups: alt.games.gb Subject: Re: Serious bug fix Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:11:51 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 51 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9212250409.AA21211@JETHRO.CS.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu