Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au!peter From: peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Is ARP orphaned? Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 09:50:20 GMT References: Sender: news@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Usenet News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au jkh@MEEPMEEP.PCS.COM (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >NOT to start the "Is ARP god's gift to the world / a software antichrist" >debate all over again here, but as someone who's used ARP without any >problems whatsoever for the last year and a half, all I want to know is >whether or not another release is ever planned. I hear frequent mention >of bugs in ASyncRun(), among other things, and figure that 50 flames >can't be completely wrong even if I have yet to run into a problem >myself. >So who "owns" the source to ARP at this point? Is Charlie Heath reachable? >If he's not maintaining ARP anymore has he at least passed the torch? > Jordan I have been promising myself for the last few months that I will write a "compatibility" library that implements the ARP functionality under 2.0. Anything that uses ASyncRun() under 2.0 dies, but I have a way around that in mind. If anything ever comes of it, I will post details..... -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Home) +61-9-450-5243 Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers. (Dan Zerkle)