🚀 go-pugleaf

j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:

>In article <al196521.715456252@academ01>, al196521@academ01.mty.itesm.mx
>(Juan Carlos Guerra Escamilla) wrote:
> 
>>  does any of you know when is the version 3.0 of the popular anti-viral
>> program Disinfectant will be available for FTP.
> 
>I was planning to do an ambitious new version 3.0 of Disinfectant with all
>sorts of new features to take advantage of System 7. I even made the
>horrible mistake of describing it and promising to release it publicly.
>Unfortunately, over a year ago, when I was about half way through the
>project, I ran out of steam. Since then, I have lost interest in viruses
>and Disinfectant and moved on to other projects (mostly networking stuff).
>It appears that my attention span is limited to a maximum of 3 or 4 years
>:-)

>Note that when and if the next virus appears, Disinfectant's version number
>will increase to 3.0. Apple's version numbering scheme doesn't permit
>mutiple digits after the decimal point, so I can't go to v2.10. This will
>probably cause all sorts of confusion, since people will think that is the
>big new version with all the new features I was promising a year ago. Sigh.

You could always increase the version number to 4.0 and skip the 3's
altogether... that would avoid people expecting all the "neat" features
in 3.0 :)
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