On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:12:10PM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
Hello All, Well Arty and Alex along with a lot of help from others have networking almost to a usable state. So far the wish/feature list includes:
- OpenOffice
- FireFox
- IRC
- CVS
- SEH (done?)
Lets get some ideas of other things that need to be fixed or implemented. Sound support is going to be a post 0.3.0 bug for me as I dont have the time or knowlege to try and fix winmm/mmdrv. If you want to see sound on 0.3.0 you need to step up to the plate.
As i said before i like it best when each release has one distinguising feature (even subreleases). The obvious feature for 0.3.0 would be networking, so even though it would be nice that say SEH works (which i understood is really sweet, but says nothing to end users i think) and that openoffice works, i think we should bring it as the big networking release.
So imho 'networking' should work. So a user should get the feeling networking works. So for this above mentioned apps which should work:
-firefox -cvs rather define a set of clients here, if tcp/ip works cvs should work, but of course not every client will, so maybe limit it to cvs commandline, wincvs and tortoisecvs? -irc here this is even more true, we should pick a few, most importantly mirc and probably a open-source one, like xchat?
I'm missing email here (second most used internet application?), so maybe we could add thunderbird as well?
So list of applications recap:
-firefox -commandline cvs -wincvs -tortoisecvs -mirc -xchat -thunderbird
All other applications working (like openoffice) would be very nice, but i don't see why it should be a goal for 0.3.0. Of course i understand lots of people won't agree on the focussing on one feature, but i think it will make for better headlines, and mouth-to-mouth ('networking on ros works' is a lot easier to tell around than a list of apps working).
Mark