Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: News 3.0 Summary: 3.0 status report Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 88 03:54:06 GMT References: <4460@killer.uucp> <11271@steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: First Zenarchist International Lines: 33 In article <11271@steinmetz.ge.com> bill davidsen writes: >In article <4460@killer.UUCP> wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: >| Well, Eric, where is it? > > I'm NOT the only one... I was supposed to be a beta site for N3.0 on >xenix[23]86 and a few other systems, and never heard anything? Sorry, I did email you about this. Two SCO XENIX people, Steph Marr and Keith Reynolds, are now semi-officially working on the XENIX port; I figured I'd send you a version known to work under it. They're busy right now pre-USENIX, but have said they do (what should be) the final test cycle after. > How about a status report? I just posted a short one, but here goes again. I think I'm ready for release, and am just polishing at this point (things like adding multi-user interlocking and shareable format to the history database handling routines, and improving the organization of the library code a bit). But I'm waiting on the NNTP and NFS support changes Erik Fair and Mel Pleasant have been promising. I'm not going to wait much longer, this thing has slipped too long as it is. Time for another round of trying to get people to move faster. I guess I have to set myself a deadline. I'll ship what I have August 1st. If that's missing NNTP/NFS code, that'll just have to do; it can be a patch. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718