Re: Alpha release!

[David Morton <mortonda@horizon.hit.net>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Kultarr wrote:

> Of particular interest to me is how you plan to do the dynamic module
> linking... it seemed like perhaps you are striving for a CORBA type
> of interface?  Or is it something else?  Not sure...

I think there are some similarities, but we are making our own broker, to
save space...  some may say that we are re-inventing the wheel... I'd say
we are redesigning it! (and using just the needed parts)


> One document had Managers and Handlers... not sure what the 
> distinction was supposed to be there...

Just a handy way of describing their relationships... the Manager is a 
somewhat abstract interface, the handler is a specific implementation of a 
subset of the manager's duties. (did I say that right?)

> Oh, I haven't read through the code in any detail yet, but what
> sort of class library (if any) is being used?  If the answer is 
> none, then I may have some code that I can contribute -- I have
> written my own String class and some other common data structures
> which may be of interest... of course, this may certainly have
> already been done, especially if you are planning an Alpha release
> pretty soon...

actually, I don't think we have a class library.  We may find those 
classes useful.  I would call this an alpha-alpha release...
We are keeping to that date mainly just because the original people 
involved in this project set that date.  

My question is "Can we acually have some kind of release in that time span?"
Coding is hard underway, but we are going to be hard pressed to 
accomplish the list of tasks that hakan proposed.  Instead of expanding that
list, I think we need to narrow it down.  

I think for July 14, realistically, we may be able to have a browser
than can handle the simplist cases... Headers, paragraphs, bold, center,
emphasis, preformatted, anchors...  no tables, no forms...  and 
*maybe* working on top of the OM interfaces.  gif images? possibly...

This is just a realistic estimate for July 14.  I'm in no way saying that 
this is all this browser should do.  I just think that there is a limit 
to what we can do in this short time.  

Let's let this release show off the concepts. The rest will follow.

If the people developing the various parts disagree, email us!  I would 
love to release more.  

more comments?

David Morton