[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems
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- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:29:56 -0500 (EST)
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Greg Mayman said:
>
> As far as I am aware, Arachne was tested under many different
> DOSes before it was released, and that testing included the Alt-E
> function and its return to Arachne.
Greg,
Arachne has always been tested mostly by her users after release.
Michael Polak, the original developer, was hyper-active, sometimes
releasing new versions a few weeks or even days apart. The releases
were not carefully and systematically tested before release.
Michael relied on the users for testing.
Today there are multiple versions from a small corps of developers.
They seem to be more careful and systematic than Michael ever was
and I am thankful for their efforts. But they can only do so much.
There is no time and not enough people to test every feature on
every DOS or possible setup.
There as never really been a finished "release" of Arachne. It has
always been an evolving work in progress that contains many experimental
features and a myriad of user configurable options.
There is no staff of testers to check things out other than the users.
There never has been and never will be. It's important to keep that
in mind.
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