[openbeos] Re: The state of the world (or, WTF is Glass Elevator and who am I?)
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:23:15 -0600 (CST)
> >>Parallel development is always a good thing, right=3F :) And how
> > > funny
> >>would it be if we released R2 before R1=3F
> >
> >Professionally, it'd look like we're dumb, though the humor value
> > would
> >definitely be high :)
> >
> >I didn't realize this was the way things were going to be.
> > Interesting.
>
> This sounds like something different than what it really is, maybe.
> Nathan is really working on design and prototyping for R2.
> Gathering ideas from people, distilling them into a coherent list.
> Sketching out APIs that people would like to see, etc.
> It is certainly not a parallel effort to build a second OBOS. That
> would
> be just silly. There are certain APIs that many people don't like.
> This is a chance to
> talk about them and try to improve them. The CVS is, in a way, a
> proof of concept
> type of thing.
Apologies for not being clear. However, I *am* coding things, whether
for proof of concept or not. This is not merely discussion (although
that is an important part of the endeavor).
-Nathan
--
Fortune Cookie Says:
"A witty saying proves nothing."
-- Voltaire
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