Re: v2.1 Features Review
Alan Tu writes (regarding file-stamping in 2.1):
> Uh, hmmm. Great plan. So will authors send like an e-mail
> to you and you decide to stamp or not stamp the file? I
> assume not all these will be in the package. They should
> probably be in one section of the website, I respectively submit.
We're willing to "stamp" just about any include file that
will be useful to more than just the author of the include.
We'll start doing it soon. It will cause an (easily-corrected)
error when you use a stamped file under v2.0 or earlier,
so we'll allow a few more days for people to download 2.1 alpha.
You can correct the error by simply deleting the "stamp"
statement which appears on the last line of the
file as (for example):
with 973857463
We want people to be able to write 300 of *their own* statements
before being affected by the diagnostic limit. A good example
is Win32Lib. We want people to be able to learn how to write
Windows programs using Win32Lib without being hassled by
the diagnostic limit. Win32Lib is thousands of lines long.
We don't want to charge you with all those statements before
you've written any code of your own.
* * *
I'd also like to remind anyone who registered or upgraded
to Single or Dual-Platform, on or after July 15, 1998
that you are eligible for a *free* upgrade to 2.1. You can
wait for the 2.1 official release, or you can download
the Complete Edition for 2.1 alpha now, and download
the beta and official later. Just e-mail me your name and
address (for confirmation) and I'll give you the instructions.
We're giving the Single-Platform people a free upgrade,
because we promised 6 months of free upgrades, but
now we've discontinued Single-Platform. We also intended
6 months of free upgrades to *official* releases, but it
wasn't clear in register.doc, so we're setting the cutoff date
to 6 months before the alpha. If you get the alpha free
you'll also get the beta and official free. We want to keep
everyone happy 
I expect that the alpha-test period will last about
one month, followed by one month of beta-testing,
followed by the official release in March.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
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