[interfacekit] Re: Registrar: Milestone 3 reached

Congratulations!  This is great news!!  I assume somebody will post this 
on openbeos.org?  I can't seem to login to do it ... =(

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>Hi,
>
>this could have been said a week or so ago, but wasn't due to 
>communication flow problems. Anyway...
>
>The fearless Storage Kit team, this time supported by Gabe Yoder, 
>strikes again. Milestone 3 of our four-phased registrar development 
>schedule has been reached.
>
>Newly implemented are the application roster features application 
>launching and watching, recent application/document support and message 

>broadcasting, and the BMessageRunner and BClipboard classes.
>
>Let alone one method, BRoster::ActiveApp(), which requires our own 
>working app server, the entire part of the BeOS API that depends on 
>interactions with the registrar is completely implemented. For the next 

>and last milestone the two missing registrar services, the automatic 
>background updating of the MIME database and the system shutdown, need 
>to be added. For the time being they are not crucial, and it does make 
>more sense to tackle them, when we can run applications under our 
>operating system, so we postpone the remaining tasks and, in the 
>meantime, get some other work done.
>
>CU, Ingo
>
>


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