AW: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?

[Christian Lahme]

Ok, Andreas, let me say what I´m thinking about it:

1. Don´t do anymore bugfixes on Win32-Structure, only if it´s in the
client, not the server
2. Release 1.4 now!

Linux-Provider are getting in very hard discussion with there customers.
We only can say that DICE isn´t able to fix that now, and that we´re
waiting for 2 month now on a patch. Come on, tell your managers that we
can´t wait anymore, not for this terrible Win32-Server. We need the
Linux-Version and I think most servers will run on a Linux-Maschine, not
on a Win32, just because of the scriptings and some other automatism,
the higher costs on Win2kServer-License and many other things like
security.

It´s very hard to see, that many customers getting angry just because of
the ugly lagging servers in v. 1.3.1 on linux-machines. We´ve best
hardware-conditions, best uplinks on european networks and we won´t be
able to set up this game-service without having trouble because of lags
within the software.

GET IT OUT NOW, NOT TOMORROW!

Christian Lahme
GAJA-Networks

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Fredriksson, Andreas [mailto:andreas.fredriksson at dice.se] 
Gesendet: Montag, 26. Mai 2003 10:31
An: 'bf1942 at icculus.org'
Betreff: RE: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?



Hi,

we're getting there. The patch has grown a bit to accomodate a lot of
bug fixes mainly for win32, but we're getting there. You'll probably
have played it for quite a while in July..

But don't quote me on any of this ;-)

// Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: keats at prophecy.be [mailto:keats at prophecy.be]
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 3:53 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?
> 
> 
> I know you are bound to non-disclosure by the dice release
> manager; and I
> know why the 1.4 isn't out yet (a few last win32 bugs), but 
> another friday
> has passed, another week no patch. My superior has given me a deadline
> concerning our battlefield server section so I'm getting 
> pretty desperate.
> 
> This mail is not meant to whine or beg or try to double the
> amount of grey
> hair on your head, but Andreas, can't you even give an order 
> of magnitude
> as to when we can expect it? The reason I ask this is simple 
> : if you say
> for instance : chances are pretty big we won't be able to 
> release the 1.4
> patch before the summer holiday's (july here ;) ), then I 
> would like to
> know now so I can suggest the alternative Wine/windows server 
> combination.
> If, on the other hand, it is only a matter of at most a few 
> weeks, I can
> still be patient for a little while longer and hope and pray :)
> 
> Don't get me wrong, you are undoubtedly doing a great job and
> I appreciate
> the updates which make this list worth while, but I have to choose now
> between keeping on waiting and trying alternatives/giving up 
> our servers.
> So even the vaguest, unofficial, smallest hint, preferrably 
> expressed in a
> real timeframe (not very very very soon ;) ), would mean a 
> lot to me, and
> undoubtedly many others on this list.
>