[bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?

[Reinder Gerritsen]

And as also mentioned previously by Andreas, once 1.4 hit's the road,
he promised patches would be coming out as they used to.

Daniel, realy, what do you try to accomplish here?

Andreas was clear about how it will be:

- 1.31 will no longer be worked on to fix bugs cause it takes to much
effort maintaining both builds.
- 1.4 will be released once Win32 clients are fixed
- AFTER this release, new server builds will be more frequent
availeble to fix Server issues while maintaining compatibility
with the 1.4 client, just as we were used to.

When this will be, Andreas just can't tell. Probably his management is
afraid they trip over some nasty bug requiring them to postpone, after the
picked a release date. After so much time, having to delay a releasedate
the revealed to the public would hurt too much. Prolly they have an idea
of release date, but maybee they don't because they have problems
estimating the time needed to squash the bugs...

Look, it's frustrating for sure, and I also eagerly await the 1.4 release,
but I realy don't see why so many still don't get it. You've been on the
list for quite some time (I vividly remember your first post here ;)) so
you've seen the same messages from Andreas as I did...

Surely idealy developement of BF would have been in an easily portable
code tree, but that's one station they passed a long time ago. Just sit
tight and wait as most others do.


On Fri, 16 May 2003, Fredriksson, Andreas wrote:

>
> Look, the decision was made to release 1.4 as both a win32 update
> and a linux server open beta because there wasn't enough time to
> work on both 1.31 and 1.4 at the same time.
>
> And what good would a 1.4 server do without any clients?
>
> The holdup is win32 bugs, nothing else.
>
> // Andreas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Valois [mailto:ninzor at packet-kids.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:14 PM
> > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Subject: RE: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?
> >
> >
> > What IS the holdup, then?
> > Is it ready and you're sitting on it?
> > Do you feel it's almost close to being ready?
> > Anything will be better than what we have now.
> > We're used to getting buggy versions and debugging them for you. That
> > hasn't happened lately. I don't know why you feel it necessary to
> > release patches in accordance to the win32 version. We need a
> > patch bad.
> > We wont bitch if there are more bugs. We'll be happy to help
> > out. That's
> > why we're on this mailing list. We are all supposed to be a
> > team here as
> > far as I know. Or are we now all playing the role of your average end
> > user that doesn't know how to power cycle a PC. As you can tell I am
> > frustrated with this new way of doing things and not seeing any hard
> > evidence of anything being done about it. Sorry if this pissed you and
> > the rest of the list off but deep down a lot of you probably agree. So
> > flame on.
> >
> > -=DV=-
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fredriksson, Andreas [mailto:andreas.fredriksson at dice.se]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:53 AM
> > To: 'bf1942 at icculus.org'
> > Subject: RE: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?
> >
> >
> > Sorry but I'm not allowed to speak about release dates. Let me assure
> > you though that the patch isn't held back because of Linux issues.
> >
> > // Andreas
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eric Schultz [mailto:paradxum at thecookieshop.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:37 PM
> > > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > > Subject: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok, I understand that this is probally the worst question to ask,
> > > but Andreas, when will we see a new server version? the next week?
> > > the next month? another 3 months?
> > > I'm getting a little antsy here because I've heard all about
> > > this new build,
> > > how it doesn't suffer the woe's of the old one and I want to
> > > try it out!
> > > I know that you guys are working hard on this, but we haven't
> > > seen a release
> >
> >
> >
>