[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems
- From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:05:06 -0500
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:29:56 -0500 (EST), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
Thank you Sam, very well said.
Just as Michael Polak did in the past...
Today... We, the members of the Arachne development team, still rely
upon our 'user base' to also be our 'testing base'.
Most, if not all, of we programmers use only one version of DOS
in our development process.
Mine is OpenDos v7.01
Ray Andrews uses MsDos but with 4DOS as his command interpreter.
I don't recall right off-hand which versions of DOS Joe, Christof,
Andrej, Michal, Vladimir, Udo or any of the other team members are using.
In addition, since each and every one of us are doing this strictly
as a hobby and each us have jobs we must go to every day....
None of us have time to do the type of thorough testing which really
needs to be done.
We must therefore rely upon you, the users to tell us what we need to do
to make Arachne better.
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