On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 burton666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I crossed posted this mail to the IK team list. I think, that's were it belongs. > >On 2003-04-07 at 19:54:11 [-0700], Mark A Johnson wrote: > >> Just wondering what the "true" status of the kits is. Seeing as how > >> the > > First of all: > Hi all. I have been very busy lately (bought a new house (without a phone > connection, so no internet at home), my job contract expired, they made a new > one, but had to stay home for 20 days, so no internet at work :=), my main pc > fried, so no BeOS at home :((( ), so that today, when I checked my mailboxes > after 20 days of "inactovity", I found about 800 messages :=), so sorry for > the late answer. > > Since I am one of the few (the obly ?) "survived" support kit members, I > can give a report of the situation of this kit. > > - BString is fully tested, and it works fine. What it's missing is a > code review from other people, and someone (me? :-) ) which finishes the > Doxygen documentation. I don't know what's the IK team's reviewing policy. The SK team does (at least that's how it is planned ;-) reviews after finishing each major development phase (therefore we try to postpone the migration to beta as long as possible ;-). Regarding the doxygen stuff. Well, you worked on it, so you are probably best suited for the job. :-) > - BDataIO (and related classes) are finished and tested, though I would like > to see some real-world testing before considering them shipping quality. > - BArchivable was done by our Erik, and it should be more or less finished > (Erik?) > - BBlockCache should be fully working. > - BBufferIO (undocumented) is in a bad state. I made many tests, and it > seemed to work at first, but then I found that the Be's implementation seems > to do strange things (even differentiates its behaviour if a BFile is given), > so it needs work. > - BList is fully working and fully tested (I took Ingo's implementation and > merged it with Isaac's one),altough tests have not been committed to the CVS. > - BStopWatch, BLocker and BAutolock should be ok. > - BMessageRunner , AFAIK, is not done, but it needs the help of the > Registrar, so, IMHO, it should be Ingo's work (as he doesn't have > anything to do :=))))) Phew, I had to check that for myself, but fortunately the class still has an implementation and a complete set of unit tests. ;-) All what remains to be done regarding the registrar can't be done before we can embed it into a running OBOS system (which requires a mostly finished libbe and app server running on top of our kernel). CU, Ingo