Xref: utzoo news.admin:14619 news.software.b:7950 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!ki4pv!cdis-1!tanner From: tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1TA00RX@cdis-1.compu.com> Date: 24 May 91 13:38:40 GMT References: <1991May16.151523.28123@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May18.211109.20401@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May20.093018@mccall.com> <1991May21.190510.15062@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: CompuData, Inc. (DeLand) Lines: 23 X-Phone: +1 904 736 0866 X-Snail: 1409 E New York Ave; DeLand, FLA 32724. On having a volunteer project instead of paid staff for C news... hs-) As it is, we just have to decide "that's good enough -- ship it" hs-) at some point. The same applies in commercial products, by the way. Don't feel that commercial packaging means that first we get everything perfect, and then we ship. We're about to ship BJ 5.0; if you think that there won't be a 5.1, it may be because you don't know that we've already started planning for it. Let me also tell you that the customers will be grateful when they get 5.0; it will be faster (in some cases much faster), and use less disk space for the database, and cost less to produce. More features will be included in response to customer requests. They'll also be glad to get 5.1, when that comes out. Still, they don't want to wait until we do all of the scheduled 5.1 work before they get 5.0; they want us to say ``That's good enough -- ship it'' and they want us to say it fairly soon. -- uflorida!ki4pv!cdis-1!tanner {uunet dsinc}!cdin-1!cdis-1!tanner