Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!zeus.unomaha.edu!bacon Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Is ARP orphaned? Message-ID: <12603.2804db1f@zeus.unomaha.edu> From: bacon@zeus.unomaha.edu (Infomaniac) Date: 11 Apr 91 21:54:39 CST References: Lines: 46 In article , peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin edu.au (Peter Wemm) writes: > 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 > Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers. (Dan Zerkle) Peter, I had heard that 2.0 was making ARP obselete only for the reason that C= was going to implement the ARP code en toto (totally) into the new release!! In other words, C= couldn't improve on it so they used it ;) Basically Charlie has worked himself out of a job, as far as ARP is concerned. Therefore, I have heard that there were no plans for further upgrades. Then again, ... I could be way off the wall. Russ comments/suggestions/additions/deletions/obfuscations/indigestions WELCOMED!!! ****************************************************************************** Gee. . . Toto . . . this sure doesn't look like Kansas! Russ Bacon University of NE at Omaha /// Have you Bitnet - Bacon@UNOMA1 /// tried Internet - Bacon@zeus.unomaha.edu \\\/// an Yellnet - (402) 554-2293 \XX/ AMIGA?? *****************************************************************************