AW: [bf1942] Not ready for prime time / SHOWSTOPPERS

[Darren Etheridge]

You want some cheese to go with thiat whine? geez

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scratch Monkey" <ScratchMonkey at SewingWitch.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [bf1942] Not ready for prime time / SHOWSTOPPERS


> --On Monday, March 24, 2003 9:37 PM -0500 "Ryan C. Gordon"
> <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:
>
> > Give them a break, they're just ramping up...this isn't a matter of
> > popping in a Visual Studio.NET disc and recompiling. Anyone that's
> > done Linux development knows that just getting a properly configured
> > devbox takes time, let alone fixing the strange bugs that pop up and
doing
> > a good, clean (albeit beta) release.
>
> Not to mention how BIG this code is. 15 minutes to *link* on a bleeding
> edge box. God knows how long it must take to compile. Hopefully DICE can
> commit a few machines to a compile farm to make that less painful.
>
> (Is that link time from just I/O, or does this thing have an ugly
> dependency graph?)
>