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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/Shrinkit
Summary: GS/ShrinkIt
Message-ID: <1158@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 90 17:20:02 GMT
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Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <4293@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:

>>I'm past the point where I can accurately estimate a release date for
>>gs/shrinkit... it'll get done whenever it gets done.
> 
> Well, I was wondering, the new gs/shrinkit will encompass lots of new
> formats and the alike, right?

No, not really.  It's just a desktop version of shrinkit, that's all.

(my beta testers are sitting here looking at this, going "not really..." :-)

> Is it these parts that are delaying the release, or the shrinkit format part?

Neither.  I am a college student, not a full-time programmer.  I work on
ShrinkIt 3.0, GS/ShrinkIt 1.0, and my janterm which involved programming and
ran way over schedule also, whenever I'm not in class or studying.  I usually
"work" 18-22 hour days just to keep up with stuff.  For example, today I've been
awake since about 11am thursday morning (it's now after 12 noon, friday)
and have taken a spanish exam (I hate spanish, bah, liberal arts), debugged
a large section of gs/shrinkit code which was giving me problems, did my usual
studying and/or errands and am about to sit down and write a paper on the
'indigenous political systems of the Igbo' for what may become my history
major (I have a CS major already and history is easy).  Most people around my
college who know me think I'm nuts and push myself too hard (they are probably
right).

If you haven't tried writing a large program like GS/ShrinkIt, you should.  It's
a very eye-opening experience... :-)

> I, personally, wouldn't mind
> having a semi-release with only the shrinkit part working, and all the
> other options just saying "not active" when trying to invoke em.

That's a nice idea, but I'm not going to do it.  Too many people are going to
want copies of this and having to update it "as I work on it" will just end
up confusing people ta' death.  I would much rather fix bugs and confuse people
than add features and confuse people... if I have a choice. (I do)

> Totally far-fetched idea?  Seems like it would be a great way to get
> gs/shrinkit out to folks, and satisfy them, while you continue to work
> on formats that aren't as important to the II's (yet).

Well, folks will just have to wait.  They've waited this long, another 
XX years won't hurt.  Look at how long we had to wait for System 4.0
containing GS/OS. :-)

andy

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